Not long ago, I gathered all my Twilight-related writing into a blog-post called Everything I Ever Wrote About the Twilight Saga, and thought that would be an end to it. I hadn’t intended to write about the fifth and (presumably, though you never know where a money-making franchise is concerned) final film in the series.But then a funny thing happened – I found myself enjoying The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 more than all the other films put together.After a cursory glance at the reviews and related message-boards, I am once again struck by the vitriol directed at these films – a lot of it, one suspects, by people who have never even watched them, but who nevertheless go out of their way to denigrate them. There are legitimate criticisms to be made about these stories, much as there are legitimate criticisms to be made about superhero movies, or lunkhead action pics. But films aimed at the young male demographic invariably get a free pass, whereas it’s apparently OK to heap derision on films that cater to young female romantic fantasies. It’s apparently not enough to ignore them, the way most of us generally ignore things that don’t interest us – you have to be seen to sneer, and you have to let as many people as possible know that you’re sneering.It’s true that if I had a teenage daughter, I would hope she’d be more interested in The Hunger Games, which I think is better written, more challenging and more stimulating than Stephenie Meyer‘s tetralogy. But the first part of Suzanne Collins‘s trilogy would probably never have been filmed had it not been for the success of theTwilight franchise, which has shown that, contrary to what Hollywood once seemed to think, there is a market out there for films aimed at young women.So here, for the record, are some of the notes I jotted down during Breaking Dawn – Part 2. This is not a formal review, but I did retro-edit them into a semblance of order. They contain SPOILERS – but I will issue warnings before the major ones.The film opens with a lovely Carter Burwell theme I hadn’t noticed in the previous episodes, and credits with such widely spaced letters they’re quite difficult to read. (Credits in ultra-widely spaced type seems to be a trend – see also Rust and Bone.) Bella is more interesting now she’s a vampire – catches a mountain lion in mid-leap. Hurrah! All the boring abstinence, passivity, men controlling her, pro-foetus propaganda, S & M sex etc is in the past. More or less.The Cullens are all present and correct and standing around. (What do vampires do when they’re not drinking blood? Neither Meyer nor the film-makers seem to have given this much thought.) But now we’re stuck with Bella and Edward’s daughter – Renesmee. FFS. Director Bill Condon and screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg can’t do much with Meyer’s more idiotic conceits. At first, she’s a chuckling CGI-faced baby, then she grows really, really fast. At this rate, won’t she be dead before she’s 13?But wait, this is not a growth disorder like Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome - it’s a form of Twilight-itis, which means it’s another thing to which Meyer hasn’t given much thought. Renesmee is just perfect and will be perfect for ever, just like Edward, who has (in what is probably my favourite line from the books, though I can’t remember which volume it was), “the most beautiful soul, more beautiful than his brilliant mind or his incomparable face or his glorious body oto chodzi
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