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Eclipse, part 3 of the Twilight movie series based on Stephanie Meyer’s novels, is thoroughly enjoyable, if a little obtuse to newcomers.
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By Anne John
(Anne John is a software engineer by education, a freelance journalist by choice and a completely confused young woman by nature! She blogs at www.abstractadmissions.blogspot.com)
Social networking sites have quizzes such as “Which Twilight character are you?” and questions like “What would you like to be born as in your next birth?” lead people to answer ‘Vampire!” exuberantly. No surprise then, that Twilight fans are rejoicing, with the release of Eclipse.
Continuing the thread, the lead characters, Edward and Bella are back together (much to her father’s dismay), though Bella’s mother seems pretty pleased, quite oblivious that her daughter is dating a vampire! On the other hand, Jacob, with his pack of werewolves, is neither too far away nor too covert about his affections for Bella.
Bella finds herself constantly caught amidst the struggle between her two strong admirers. Conflict raises its hand in another form too, between Bella’s desire to be ‘converted’ in order to be able to stay with Edward, and the reactions of the others, including Edward and Jacob, to the idea.
At the same time, there is a sudden rash of violent crime, disappearances and killings occurring in the nearby city. The police are on the prowl but to no avail. Who is behind it? Is there a new group of vampires out for the kill? Will it draw the attention of the Volturi, the ancient coven of vampires, to Forks? Gradually things become clearer and both the werewolves and the vampires unite to fight for and protect both Forks as well as Bella.
The main cast is the same as the previous one with Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner playing the lead roles. There are a few changes and additions with the other characters. The mood of the movie is one of mystery but for a movie themed on blood-sucking, cold creatures and giant wolves, there is relatively little gore on screen. Further, apart from a few kisses, there is a strong suggestion of abstinence, which perhaps explains its popularity with parents!
Eclipse is a good movie to head to for an interesting escape into fantasyland. It is an engaging successor to New Moon and it ends in such a way that fans are already excitedly anticipating the fourth and final episode, Breaking Dawn. ‘Enjoyable’ would the one word verdict!
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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