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You're really bored, aren't you? (Ghostsofgiants' Greatest Hits)
Posted by primate1 in The DU Lounge
Thu Nov 20th 2008, 03:43 PM
http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/film_rev...

"Parents need not freak, as Meyer's tale is by and large chaste, its backbone Edward's repression of his thirst for blood, which serves as a blunt metaphor for carnal impulses and, consequently, establishes the entire affair as a saga of self-inflicted vampiric blue balls."

"If Edward, despite his youthful body, is in reality a 108-year-old man, then his lustful wooing of an actual high-school junior makes him, for all intents and purposes, a borderline statutory rapist and all around dirty old perv. Your move, Anne Rice!"

Gold.
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