Twilight Movie Review - Interpersonal Communication
Twilight:
Interpersonal Communication Movie Review
Through the story of the characters and their interpersonal communication movies have become a household commodity and often times emerge as a mainstream “pop culture.” Twilight is the recent adaptation from novel to film based off the book by Stephanie Meyer released in 2005 by the same title. The film tells a story about the forbidden love between two individuals through the telling of a seventeen year-old girl. Through this forbidden love between the two main characters, Bella and Edward, there is a variety of different interpersonal communication that occurs. Through the interactions these two characters have with each other there are positive and negative implications of interpersonal dynamics. Looking at this film in such a way provides the ability to examine such concepts as trust, self-disclosure, conflict, relationship development.
The concept of trust in any relationship is important and even more so in developing a romantic relationship. When Bella and Edward were first drawn together by having biology class together there had been a trust issue. Bella’s scent had an intense affect on Edward because he is a vampire; and she had been the one he had waited for in a soul mate. However, because her scent was so strong he left school for a few days and upon his return he avoided the truth of why he was gone by simply stating, “I had to go out of town for a few days for personal reasons.” The next scene of trust issues relates to Bella wanting to know how Edward was able to stop the van from crushing her. When confronted about this Edward refused to give in to her questions and denied that he had been across the parking lot and instead said he had been right next to her the whole time. He even went as far as to say that she hit her head and she was hallucinating about the whole accident and how Edward saved her.
Due to the trust issues that started their relationship there has also been
Interpersonal Communication Movie Review
Through the story of the characters and their interpersonal communication movies have become a household commodity and often times emerge as a mainstream “pop culture.” Twilight is the recent adaptation from novel to film based off the book by Stephanie Meyer released in 2005 by the same title. The film tells a story about the forbidden love between two individuals through the telling of a seventeen year-old girl. Through this forbidden love between the two main characters, Bella and Edward, there is a variety of different interpersonal communication that occurs. Through the interactions these two characters have with each other there are positive and negative implications of interpersonal dynamics. Looking at this film in such a way provides the ability to examine such concepts as trust, self-disclosure, conflict, relationship development.
The concept of trust in any relationship is important and even more so in developing a romantic relationship. When Bella and Edward were first drawn together by having biology class together there had been a trust issue. Bella’s scent had an intense affect on Edward because he is a vampire; and she had been the one he had waited for in a soul mate. However, because her scent was so strong he left school for a few days and upon his return he avoided the truth of why he was gone by simply stating, “I had to go out of town for a few days for personal reasons.” The next scene of trust issues relates to Bella wanting to know how Edward was able to stop the van from crushing her. When confronted about this Edward refused to give in to her questions and denied that he had been across the parking lot and instead said he had been right next to her the whole time. He even went as far as to say that she hit her head and she was hallucinating about the whole accident and how Edward saved her.
Due to the trust issues that started their relationship there has also been