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Don't say yous'll die for me unless you actually mean it

Kristen Stewart, left, and Robert Pattinson star in "Twilight."

If you lot're a vampire, information technology'due south all about y'all. Why is Edward Cullen obsessed to the point of erotomania past Bella Swan? Because she smells so yummy, but he doesn't desire to kill her. Here'due south what he tells her: He must not be around her. He might sink his fangs in but a petty, and not be able to cease. She finds this overwhelmingly attractive. She tells him he is the most beautiful thing she has ever seen. I don't retrieve Edward ever proverb that to her. Maybe once. He keeps on saying they should stay far, far apart, considering he craves her so much.

Should a adult female fall in love with a man because he desires her so much? Men seem to think so. Information technology's non almost the adult female, it'due south nearly the human being'due south desire. We all know at that place is no such thing equally a vampire. Come on at present, what is "Twilight" actually about? Information technology's about a teenage boy trying to practise abstinence, and how, in the heat of the moment, it's really, really hard. And about a girl who wants to go all the way with him, and doesn't intendance what might happen. He's so cute she would practice anything for him. She is the embodiment of the sentiment, "I'd die for you." She is, like many adolescents, a thanatophile.

If there were no vampires in "Twilight," it would be a thin-blooded teenage romance, well-nigh two practiced-looking kids who desire each other so much because they want each other so much. Sometimes that'south all information technology's about, isn't it? They're in love with being in love. In "Twilight," all the same, they have a seductive disagreement almost whether he should kill her. She's like, I don't especially want to die, only if that's what it takes, count me in. She is touched past his devotion. Think what a sacrifice he is making on her behalf. On Prom Nighttime, on the stage of the not especially private gazebo in the public gardens, he teeters correct on the brink of a fang job, and and then brings all of her trembling to a expressionless stand-still.

The movie is lush and cute, and the actors are well-chosen. You may think Robert Pattinson (Edward) every bit Cedric Diggory, who on Voldemort'due south orders was murdered in a graveyard in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Burn down." Perchance he was already a vampire. Pattinson is non unaware of how handsome he is. When Bella and Edward, however strangers, exchange stern and burning looks in the school cafeteria, he transfixes her with a nighttime and glowering - nay, penetrating - stare. I checked Pattinson out on Google Images and constitute he near always glowers at the camera 'neath shadowed forehead. Kristen Stewart's Bella, on the other hand, is a fresh-faced innocent who is totally undefended against his voltage.

Bella has left her mom and stepdad in hot Arizona, clutching a potted cactus, to come up alive in the clammy, rainy Pacific Northwest, domicile of Seasonal Melancholia Disorder. Her dad (Billy Burke) is the principal of police of the very modest boondocks of Forks, Washington (popular. 3,120). His greatest asset: "He doesn't hover." At high school, she quickly notices the preternaturally pale Cullen clan, who in some shots seem to exist wearing as much Max Gene Pancake White as Harry Langdon. Edward is 114 years onetime. He must be really tired of taking biology form. Darwin came in during his sentinel, and proved vampires tin can't exist.

There are other strange youths around, including American Indians who announced not too distantly descended from their tribe'due south ancestors, wolves. Great tension betwixt the wolves and vampires. Also some rival vampires around. How small is this town? The Forks high school is and then big, information technology must serve a consolidated commune serving the whole tabular array setting. The chief local Normal Child is a nice sandy-haired boy who asks Bella to the prom. He's out of his depth here, unless he can transmogrify into a grizzly. Also there are four grey-bearded coots at the side by side table in the local diner, who eavesdrop and exchange pregnant glances and become large, significant close-ups but are still just sitting significantly nodding, for all I know.

Edward has the ability to move as swiftly as Superman. Like him he can stop a runaway pickup with one arm. He rescues Bella twice that I recall, perchance because he truly loves her, maybe because he's saving her for later. She has questions. "How did you appear out of nowhere and stop that truck?" Well might she inquire. When he finally explains that he is a vampire, he goes up from 8 to 10 on her Erotometer. Why do girls always prefer the distant, aloof, handsome, unsafe dudes instead of cheerful chaps like me?

"Twilight" will mesmerize its target audition, sixteen-year-old girls and their grandmothers. Their mothers know all likewise much nigh boys like this. I saw it at a sneak preview. Last time I saw a movie in that same theater, the audience welcomed information technology as an opportunity to catch up on gossip, texting, and laughing at individual jokes. This time the audition was rapt with attention. Sometimes a soft chuckle, every bit when the principal Indian male child has well-adult incisors. Sometimes a soft sigh. Later on, I eavesdropped on some conversations. A few were maxim, "He'southward then hot!" More than floated in a sweetness dreaminess. Edward seemed to stir their surrender instincts.

The movie, based on the Stephenie Meyer novel, was directed by Catherine Hardwicke. She uses her great discovery, Nikki Reed, in the part of the beautiful Rosalie Unhurt. Reed wrote Hardwick's "Xiii" (2003) when she was only 14. That was a moving-picture show that knew a lot more than about teenage girls. The girl played by Reed in that movie would brand mincemeat of Edward. Just I understand who "Twilight" appeals to, and information technology sure volition.

Note: Now playing effectually the country is the much better and more realistic teenage vampire movie "Permit the Right One In," a Swedish import scheduled to be Twilighted by Hollywood. In this one, the vampire girl protects the boy and would never dream of killing him. That's your divergence right there between girls and boys. Warning: This is very R-rated.