During dinner today my brother turned on the television to a channel that was broadcasting Breaking Dawn Part 1 of the Twilight saga. Having read the book (and subsequently the entire series) before it became a huge hit and turned girls completely crazy over the characters, I did watch the first three movies of the saga. But with each movie, I began to wonder what exactly was so bad about it.
Watching Bella and Edward at the wedding, and Jacob coming to visit her for a bit before things got out of hand (couldn't really hear the dialogue from the dining table haha so I don't know, for sure, why Jacob got mad) but I just thought of labels. How media and a lot of people/audiences have labelled the actress who plays Bella (Kristen Stewart) as someone who has a narrow range of emotions etc. Recently on Facebook, I also came across a poem she wrote which was analyzed my literature buffs and she got annihilated.
Which comes to the point about labels. Whatever role Kristen Stewart plays, she'll very likely be unable to break away from what people think of her in Twilight. Likewise for Daniel Radcliffe from Harry Potter and the other actors from the series. They've created a name for themselves in a role that they've so heavily immersed themselves with (especially for Harry Potter, we practically watched them grow up on screen) it's hard for them to ever break away from the audience's image of them.
So what about people in our lives? Do their pasts define them? I was just scrolling through photos on Facebook and emotions went wild, alarm bells in my head and all (lol. hormones.). I guess I'm really giving the people around me the gun and letting them point it, point blank, straight at me. I'm trusting all the people around me. I have to stop doubting. "Go hard or go home." ha ha ha
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