Twilight 2

I went to a Sunday night showing of Twilight tonight. It was the second time I have seen it and had a slightly different reaction this time. I was used to a pretty girl falling in love with a vampire that only drinks the blood of wild deer and other animals this time.

And more than ever I could see why young girls and for that matter women of all ages like this movie so much. It is the complete primal nature of this movie. It takes people to what it is like to be a young man or woman and Edward, the vampire, is just a metaphore for all young men in the intensity of primal consciousness caused by extreme testosterone between 13 and 30 for sure and even later for many men. In society we pretend in polite company, at least that all these intensities are not there but all these intensities lie repressed for the most part in all civilized people. So then we wonder when they get loose when a man dies or a woman dies or both die in the tangle of love and the intensity of feelings that one or both can't cope with. And then we say, "Oh that's too bad!" when we here about one or the other or both's deaths. However,at some unspoken level we all know, "There but for the grace of God go all of us."