I was watching a review of the film “Twilight”, and the woman on On Demand said that although the film was rated PG 13, that she thought “the relationship between Bella and Edward was obsessive,” and not necessarily a good influence on teenage girls.

I don’t know if this woman actually remembers being a teeneage girl, or if, perhaps, she was completely devoid of hormones. Unfortunately for parents of teens and tweeners alike, most pre-adolescent relationships border on the obsessive. Haven’t we all read Romeo and Juliet? Doesn’t Stephanie Meyer even take advantage of this parallel in the book?

Like Romeo and Juliet, Bella and Edward are star-crossed lovers. Edward is still trying to figure out how to be a vampire. Bella is trying to figure out how to be a teenage girl, a daughter, a girlfriend, and a friend. Both parties are discerning how to be in a relationship. Minor obsession is a byproduct of all of these things combined.

Once again, it is a case of the age-old question: does art imitate life, or does life imitate art?