Having started watching vampire movies starting with Bela Lugosi in the 1930s versions on black and white TV in the 1950s growing up there is an unsettling feeling when I watch Twilight and New Moon. In the 1930s until relatively recently vampires were only bad. So now I feel we are on a slippery slope. Which reminds me a lot of: "Just say 'No' to Drugs" then because you are at a high school or college party one might smoke marijuana and then often that leads to many other things in ones life that one might later regret(or not) depending upon the person and the situations.
Though I greatly enjoyed the movie I experience the same kind of slippery slope moral dilemma with these movies especially when 12 or 13 somethings watch this kind of stuff. Yes. There are LOTS of much worse movies out there to watch like the SAW series for example, and compared to that these are pretty tame.
However, we are talking about people's souls here( if you believe in souls). And doesn't it make you feel a little strange to be encouraging Bella to become a vampire. In a moral sense is there really any difference between Bella and the other girl who wants to be a vampire leading all those people to their deaths? So, as much as I enjoyed the movie I find it to be a moral slippery slope regarding people's souls. I think Edward is right. Bella shouldn't sacrifice her soul and become damned as he believes he is in order to be with him.
Otherwise, what do we believe in? Do we really believe we should sacrifice everything for love. Using this slippery slope do we believe that if we are married raising a family that we should drop everything every time we fall in love with someone new? Slippery slope. Moral dilemma. Ethical problem. In the crazy present day world we live in the old morality doesn't work. Or does it?
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