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Twilight
Review by Todd Hertz | posted 11/21/2008

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Twilight is rated PG -13 for some violence and a scene of sensuality. The violence is mostly contained to one sequence that is basically a special-effects-heavy fistfight where a young girl is viciously attacked and two men fight over her. There's a good bit of blood shown. In the blurry background of one scene, three "good" vampires jump a bad vampire and seemingly snap his neck; it's implied that he's dismembered and burned. There are two scenes of vampire bites, only one is graphic. The scene of sensuality is a passionate kiss between Edward and Bella on her bed. They eventually get very caught up in it, lie back on her bed, and then he leaps up as he gets too carried away with the kiss. Bella and Edward spend a night—fully clothed and on top of the covers—next to each other on her bed. A mother asks her daughter if she's "being safe" immediately after hearing there's a boy in the picture. The word hell and God's name are used as swear words a few times.

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Jane	Posted: October 13, 2009 9:29 PM

There is no extramarital sex in the Twilight movie or the books. I am the only person I know that made a covenant with God before engaging in sexual activity with my husband. That is a huge encouragement to me that people still believe in abstinance. The book is much more rewarding than the movie, but it is a FANTASY Love Story. It does however relate to Christianity. Allowing God to control your life and not your Human nature. God's word emphasises that in Christ we are a NEW CREATURE...our natural desires are to pass away and all of us is to become new. I like the image of a vampire overcoming it's natural desires to do what is RIGHT. In God's eyes, anything we do apart from Him is abominable, and what better image of repulsion, as a Christian, than an out of control murdering vampire as EVIL.

ks85	Posted: October 06, 2009 11:35 PM

Not rated

Twilight is a love story, its a novel that takes two people and shoes the kind of struggles that encompass relationships. Meyer's creativity uses a classic vampire-human to illustrate this love. She does not use the typical lust and sex that comes with a vampire movie but rather introduces and new kind of character. Edward doesn't want to settle for what he is, he chooses to rise above what has been given him and seeks out a life that allows him to make peace with what he is. Meyer tells their story tastefully while upholding christian values regarding boundaries, marriage and sex. There is nothing wrong with a little imagination, everything in moderation right? You can have a drink wine or you can drink the whole bottle, i believe that Meyer's story is is just a a drink.

beyonce

Posted: October 02, 2009 1:23 PM


i think this movie is dumb!!!!! i hate vampires

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