Posts Tagged ‘love triangle’

Short Take: Solemnly beautiful to no end

Director: Mark Romanek

Screenwriters: Alex Garland (screenplay), Kazuo Ishiguro (novel)

Cast: Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, Andrew Garfield

Length: 1h 43m

Synopsis: During the 1960s, Ruth (Knightley), Tommy (Garfield), and Kathy (Mulligan) begin their early years as students of the Hailsham boarding school for “special” children. Such children are the clones of humans, created to provide healthy organs for their originals later in life. The school’s main function is to keep these children healthy and indoctrinate them into accepting their purpose. Early on, Kathy and Tommy, both being outsiders of their respective social corners, begin to form a strong bond between each other. Each has seemingly fallen for the other, until Ruth pursues and woos Tommy herself. When all three turn eighteen they graduate to living outside of the school, with Ruth and Tommy still a couple and supposedly good friends with Kathy. Both girls are aware that the connection between Tommy and Kathy is real and the one between Tommy and Ruth is not, yet because of various reasons neither Tommy nor Kathy look to disrupt the status quo. This arrangement, however, does not last forever. When the inevitable happens and the three begin fulfilling their “purposes,” their true natures begin to surface – or rather, they do all they can to prove that they have true natures.

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Short Take: Definitely the most interesting of the series thus far

Director: David Slade (30 Days of Night)

Screenwriter: Melissa Rosenberg (Twilight Saga, Step Up)

Cast: Kristen Stewart (Twilight Saga, The Runaways, Adventureland), Robert Pattinson (Twilight Saga, Remember Me), Taylor Lautner (Twilight Saga, Valentine’s Day)

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Synopsis: When last we left Bella Swan (Stewart) in New Moon, she was deciding between vampire boyfriend Edward Cullen (Pattinson) or werewolf and best friend Jacob Black (Lautner).  Bella spends much of Eclipse weighing her options.  On the one hand, she could spend eternity as a vampire with Edward, though that would mean giving up important human experiences like aging and having a normal family. Choosing Jacob would allow her life to continue unchanged, except that she would have to lose Edward.  On top of this love triangle an army of recently turned or “newborn” vampires is after Bella, and Jacob and Edward must put aside the rivalry between their warring families to protect her. Read the rest of this entry »