girl's night out.

so.. today at work, we had our first "girl's night out." All the female staff members (there's 5 of us) went out with the 5th and 6th grade girls to the mall/movies. it was pretty fun... and interesting. lol. but anyway... we ended up watching Twilight with the kids. prior to tonight, i really had no interest in watching it... but, it actually ended up being better than i thought it would. I can't say that i think it's a "great movie," because, well, frankly i don't think it is... but there are certain aspects about it that i really did like.

We all know that when it comes to reading books or watching movies, the reader (or viewer) intreprets things differently than someone else... we all see our own little stories within the story that's actually written... so... i totally saw things in that movie that probably don't even tie into it all... but they did for me. hah. lol.



i like this part (you can barely see it though, i know the video's crappy but it's the only one i could find)... the vampire guy and the girl have their first kiss..and it starts getting all passionate or what not.. and it LOOKS like the kissing about to lead to touching... and eventually sex, but RIGHT when it seems like it's really starting to pass the boundary line of kissing for love and kissing for lust, he STOPS. he forces himself to and says "i can never lose control over you." ... he says that he's "stronger than he thought," implying that it takes STRENGTH to have self control. then he goes on to half sitting up half laying next to her in bed, and TALKING to her, having a CONVERSATION with her. he's close to her, but there's no sex. and i just loved that. it shows self-control and true relationship development. THAT's how you get closer to someone, you TALK to them, and have CONVERSATIONS with them... you hold off on the sex part until you actually KNOW eachother pretty well and have BEEN THROUGH things together. you don't just rush into it.

it's like... the whole movie can be intrepreted like that. it's about this family (of vampires) that restrain themselves from "being evil monsters." ... they train themselves to stop doing something that they love and yearn for because they know the outcome of it is really bad (killing people.) and it's like... a message telling us that we should learn to restrain ourselves from things that cause pain or negative energy to ourselves and those around us. This family puts THEIR OWN values before the values and ways of their species... they stray away from the "norm" of their species in order to make a positive change for themselves.

haha, anyway... i feel like i'm going to start going off on a tangent here... so i'll end it here.

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