The ‘twilight’ saga has
been creating a huge sensation among the young adults for the past few years.
It had remained a solace to the ‘Harry Potter’ fans too ever since the sequel
ended. ‘Team Edward’ and ‘Team Jacob’ has been a new cult for the evergreen mythological
vampires vs werewolves in recent times. The major success behind the twilight
saga could be attributed to the fact that the story is set in a real place
where real people live. Also the narrative is in first person mode by the
protagonist Bella Swan and she connects to the reader easily.
The first three movies,
though tried to portray the book to its most possible extent, the books always
outshone the movies. But there is something unique about the movie ‘Breaking
Dawn Part II’. People who have already read the book knew what to expect from
the movie but what the movie did in turn was to take the twilight fans into a
land of ‘Expect the unexpected’.
Breaking Dawn Part II retained
the original cast and began from where the part I ended. Bella Swan (Kristen
Stewart) wakes up as a vampire and finds herself awesome. Through her vampire
husband Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) she comes to know that she had been
out for only two days due to transition. Next she encounters her former
werewolf boyfriend Jacob (Taylor Lautner) who had recently imprinted upon her
daughter Renesme. The story turns serious by the unexpected visit of Irina, a
friend of the Cullens from Denali coven. She mistakes Renesme to be an immortal
child. The creation of an immortal child is against the vampire law and Irina
ends up reporting the Volturi about Renesme. But the truth is Renesme is not an
immortal child. She is a human child with vampire powers since Bella was still
a human when Renesme was born. So, in order to defend the child against the
Volturi, the Cullens gather an army of vampires from around the world to prove
that Renesme is not an immortal child. The werewolves also join hands for the
sake of Jacob.
Almost by the end of
the movie, in the climax there is a slight deviation from the book to make the
movie slightly interesting. In the actual book version, the Volturi is
convinced that the child is not an immortal by the army of vampires. But in the
movie, Aro refuses to believe and the encounter grows into a bloody fight where
Carlisle and Jasper are murdered by the Volturi. It enrages the Cullens who in
turn kill the vampires of the Volturi. The fight ends with Alice killing Jane
and Aro being killed by Edward and Bella. The turning point is, none of this
happens and it’s just Alice who has shared her vision on the future if Aro
doesn’t trust them. Ultimately Aro is convinced that if he fights against the
Cullens, he’ll die. So the Volturi leave.
Later Alice has a
vision of Edward, Bella, Jacob and Renesme living happily ever after and she
smiles which Edward notices too. In the closing scene, Bella and Edward are in
the meadow where she allows him to access her thoughts and a series of events
from the moment they both met till the current moment visualized with the background song playing
‘A thousand years’. The lyrics of the song is perfect.
The grand finale is
carefully sculpted so as to give importance to each and every character in the
movie. Bella’s wardrobe has been changed to indicate her transition from a
plain school girl into a flashy vampire. The camera work throughout the movie
is amazing and captures things to convey us the power of vampire vision. The
movie is stylish, classy and full of humor when compared to the other movies in
the sequel. The movie has many instances of humor: the arm wrestling between
Bella and Emmett and Bella practicing her shielding power on a retreating
Edward. The background music throughout the movie is spell binding and the song
‘A Thousand years’ is absolutely beautiful. The Director Bill Condon has done
justice to the final part in this epic saga by sculpting everyone to perfection
and glorifying all the characters in the credits.
Bottomline: If it was
not for the twist by the end of the movie, there’s nothing to say much! Though
the story is let down in some instances, it picks up pace by the end. But the movie
is strictly for twi-hard fans and fiction lovers.
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