Saturday, November 29, 2008

Death and Vampires Are Always Crowd Pleasers

When you have had to deal with death, the state of grief that creates a darkness that envelops you, a deafening chaos that clouds your judgement, and a hole of despair that penetrates your core that cast a gray tint over the world through which you wander, I believe then you can fully comprehend the saga of the vampire. This mystic creature that straddles both worlds. He no much belongs to the living nor to the dead, much like many of us in high school. These are the ones that are the embodiment of death, and when cleverly presented in gender ambiguous Robert Pattinson, one believes possibly that they can be combated, repelled, or even extinguished. A tangible being that is immortal, yet desires mortality. He finds no eternal rest nor the damnation that is merited. He is thrown into an existence of extremities. Every experience of pleasure, of pain, or of power is uncontrolled, and thus his demise. However, the conflicted vampire, the one that holds back his insatiable lusts is what intrigues us most. We identify with the creature of the night, the corruptible soul that is in constant battle of wills. Will the darkness and its desires overtake us? Will the appetite of the flesh finally be victorious? Or will the depravity of the mind enslave us? It is an endless debate, a fearsome argument. Either side is relentless and ruthless. Yet each night, the battle rages, and there is no surrender on either camp in sight. The pain of death produces a legend in which we hate and admire. The vampire escapes death, yet is sustained by it. I recommend you see Twilight.

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