A movie that gives a whole new meaning to the words “My High School sweetheart…” When Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) relocates to her (divorced) dad’s house in Washington State, she’s the outcast at school, in the middle of her junior year. That is until she meets Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) a classmate who realizes Kristen’s “scent is like a drug.” And that’s what makes this experience spectacular. While we can all relate to the desperation of first love, this is one of those films where the directing, camera angles, and soundtrack is everything. Shot in a very sexually charged way – the couple’s translucent skin, their dark, intense Maybeline stares, and their blood thirsty lips, it’s the mystery and the sexiness that reels us in to finding the teenager in all of us. Appealing to adults as well as older teens, the beauty of this film is that everything is a metaphor – first dates, holding books, kisses by the locker, and losing your virginity on prom night, but in a way that takes it to a level of outer-world reach. Four tiaras
