Twilight 暮光之城：無懼的愛

Edward and the rest of the Cullens may be mysterious to Bella, but he's transparent to the audience (and to the local Indians, who know the family's secret). With his wax complexion, "special diet" and, most of all, his nonstop intensity -- even a clueless good guy says Edward looks at Bella "like he wants to eat you" -- he's sure to be voted "Most Likely to Be a Vampire" in the high school yearbook.

Part of the fun of watching the movie with a theater full of Meyer's fans is hearing them hum with pleasure at director Catherine Hardwicke and screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg's shorthand version of the long, prosaic novel. For 15 or 20 minutes, it's fun to see Stewart and Pattinson communicate in a kind of facial semaphore, through flutters and glares. Her intelligence lights up features that are equally pretty and skeptical; Pattinson takes being misunderstood to new heights.

Although the movie loses its snap as it goes on, Edward and Bella provide something for adolescent girls to long for. Their love is immediate and absolute and at the same time not to be consummated -- unless Edward decides to let himself go wild and drink her blood. And that's not likely to happen, because the Cullens are good vampires who've funneled their batlike impulses into hunting wild animals and draining their blood and protecting humans rather than ravaging them.

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