Love-What extent can you go to get it?

Rating: 8/10 (7 December 2012)

Forever took a total different connotation when human Bella married a 104 yrs old vampire Edward. What made this movie a wonderful experience for me was the values it imbibed. Forget the supernatural part, here is a movie about friendship, about family, about refusing to let go your loved ones at the time of peril, stand up against the orthodox. "When you are immortal who do you live for"- when you have power and can have the world at your feet do you stand up for people who first took you in when you were vulnerable? As a core romanticist, my affair with the novel reached its salvation with this movie. Stephanie Meyer's vampires are not the usual larger than life and power hungry loners.And the characters do justice to their roles. They are not over-the-board with their skills but are much livelier compared to the other parts. Though I hated the baby. Was it a real baby? I don't know. But they could have skipped the visual effects their and used a real one. Frankly, Kristen Stewart looked better in this movie. As if immortality really "became" her. Her acting was more vibrant compared to the previous ones where she barely opened her eyes! Pattinson and Lautner looked as if they were asked to act on a gun point. Both equally morose and boring. The real treat was Michael Sheen as Aro, who can read all the thoughts and memories a person has ever had with a single touch. The book reads him as a curious vampire with a child like forbearance towards possibilities. In the movie, Sheen corroborates the theory with a single chuckle and blurts out" the strange heart!" about Reneesmee's half immortal incredibly fast beating heart. He is unscrupulous and deliciously evil in his make-up and a treat to watch.