Twilight-Obsessed

Due to the present Twilight mania, a 37-year old lawyer regresses back to a teenager. 

I’m just that, so sue me. 

I watched Twilight for a second time yesterday and at the risk of sounding juvenile, I have joined the scores of teenagers and fully grown women alike who have fallen irrevocably in love with that breathtakingly beautiful vampire.  The fact that he is played by the gorgeous Robert Pattinson fuels the fire of that addiction to blazing heights.  Yes, I found myself like a teenager again, swooning over a character. 

Darn, I thought I have outgrown this.  Apparently not.  

I finally found the time to finish the novel. And after reading it, I had this overwhelming need to see the movie again.  I told myself I was curious of the differences between the movie and the film, or I wanted to visually experience the story again. 

But honestly, really, I just NEEDED to see Edward. 

So I practically dragged my sister and my nephew to see the movie a second time. I had to endure the coldness of the theater as there were fewer viewers, considering that the movie is now on its fourth week here in Metro Manila.  But it was time well spent. My smile reaching practically to my ears and my heart overflowing with giddyness.  It’s a great, great chic flick, the kind that has you swooning to the heavens.  

Honestly, the book is indeed better than the movie because it is an extended and more detailed version of the  romance between Edward and Bella.  It shows the progression of their love affair that one learns to comprehend its depth and the many complications that goes with it.  And while Meyer’s prose is more targeted to the young adult audience (Sweet Dream-y, indeed), I found myself hooked on the plot and the exchange of heart-tugging dialogue.  Edward has a way with words that any woman does not stand a chance not to fall. 

“And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…”

Sigh….

“If I could dream, it would be about you.”

Awwwww…

“You are my life now.”

Waaahh…..

“I love you more than anything in the world combined.”

I love you too…

Nyahahaha.  Too bad a man like that does not actually exist. A true romantic.  Edward is a true romantic. He has the overwhelming power to DAZZLE you and literally sweep you off your feet. 

He is the stuff romantic dreams are made off.  

Sigh.

I am vicariously in love with Edward and Bella, and their complicated love affair.  

So let the regression begin.