Twilight Saga: Eclipse (PG-​​13)

Bot­tom line: It’s totally cool how so many peo­ple unite to defend the hero­ine, Bella.

Pos­i­tive value: Risk­ing your life to pro­tect the per­son you love.

Roman­tic and scary, the Twight­light series con­tin­ues. I like the fact that Edward and Jacob sac­ri­fice so much to try to pro­tect Bella and make her happy. Bella’s desire to want to live for­ever with Edward is beau­ti­ful, but con­fus­ing. How can she want to become a vam­pire? Regard­ing the vam­pire fam­ily of which Edward is a mem­ber the series con­tin­ues to high­light the inter­nal con­flict of peo­ple who have become vam­pires yet fight to over­come the strong instinct to kill and mur­der. Their effort is heroic, but Bella’s desire to become one of them is trou­ble­some. In this install­ment she explains that she has always felt inad­e­quate and out of place in the human world, so she thinks that her desire to be a vam­pire like Edward is the answer to that. Of course, it is not that sim­ple, and Edward con­tin­ues to try to change her mind. He is unsuccessful.

The sub­ject of mar­riage is also dis­cussed openly in this install­ment. Bella doesn’t believe in it, because of the divorce of her par­ents, but Edward insists that they must get mar­ried before they “do it”. I am def­i­nitely cheer­ing for Edward on this one! Mar­riage is a life-​​long com­mit­ment, and deserves to be done in the right way.