{"id":74928,"date":"2009-11-21T17:25:22","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T00:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lookingcloser.org\/?p=74928"},"modified":"2013-04-07T18:37:48","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T00:37:48","slug":"twilight-saga-new-moon-2009-looking-closers-film-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/2009\/11\/twilight-saga-new-moon-2009-looking-closers-film-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Decent Films on “New Moon”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I don\u2019t plan to spend any pennies on The Twilight Saga: New Moon<\/em> after the living nightmare that was the sneak-preview screening of Twilight<\/em>.<\/p>\n

So I refer you to the critic I trust most\u2026<\/p>\n

Steven Greydanus \u2013 Decent Films:<\/a><\/p>\n

You can see why 14-year-old girls eat this stuff up. That the Edward Effect is no less potent for many of their mothers seems troublesome.<\/p>\n

Twilight and New Moon are essentially uncritical celebrations of that overwrought, obsessive passion that is the hallmark of immaturity \u2014 passion that wholly subordinates all sense of one\u2019s own identity and elevates the beloved to summum bonum, or even the sole good; passion that leaps as readily to suicidal impulses and fantasies as to longing for union.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

While the Romeo and Juliet references underscore that self-destructive behavior among young lovers is both a perennial fact about human nature and a long-standing motif of romantic drama, Shakespeare at least gives a tragic if not cautionary context to his protagonists\u2019 suicidal tendencies. Romeo and Juliet is also about other things than young love \u2014 for example, the family rivalry of the Montagues and Capulets, without which the tragedy would not have occured and which is finally put to rest by the deaths of the lovers. In New Moon, the Edward\u2013Bella\u2013Jacob triangle and the characters\u2019 happiness or unhappiness is all that really matters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And then there\u2019s the\u2026<\/p>\n

Top 20 Unfortunate Lessons Girls Learn From Twilight<\/a><\/p>\n

My favorite? #12. \u201cLying to your parents is fine. Lying to your parents while you run away to save your suicidal boyfriend is an extremely good idea that shows your strength and maturity. Also, it is what you must do.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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