Posted on 11/19/2009 11:01:18 PM PST by Steelfish
Twilight Is A 'Deviant Moral Vacuum': Vatican Slams Blockbuster New Moon Film
By NICK PISA 20th November 2009
The latest movie in vampire saga Twilight is a 'deviant moral vacuum', the Vatican said yesterday.
New Moon, which opens in Britain today, is a 'mixture of excesses aimed at young people and gives a heavy esoteric element', a spokesman added.
The blockbuster opened on Wednesday in Italy and took £1.8million at the box office.
'Deviant': The Vatican claims vampire flick New Moon, which stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart (pictured), occupies a 'moral vacuum' Monsignor Franco Perazzolo, of the Pontifical Council of Culture, said: 'Men and women are transformed with horrible masks and it is once again that age-old trick or ideal formula of using extremes to make an impact at the box office.
'This film is nothing more than a moral vacuum with a deviant message and as such should be of concern.'
The attack comes three weeks after the Catholic Church in Italy condemned Halloween as 'anti-Christian and dangerous' and urged parents not to dress their children as ghosts and goblins.
In the past, the Vatican has also attacked the Harry Potter books and films. Six years ago, Pope Benedict XVI criticised the 'subtle seductions' in J.K. Rowling's stories, which could ' corrupt the Christian faith' in impressionable young children.
Last year Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano ran an editorial attacking the teen wizard-as 'the wrong kind of hero'. But in a U-turn four months ago it published an article approving of the latest big screen installment, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. The film managed to 'distinguish between good and evil', it said.
Cardinals also urged people not to see or read Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, which they said was an insult to Christianity.
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“Deviant Moral Vacuum”: good name for a band.
“is a ‘mixture of excesses aimed at young people and gives a heavy esoteric element”
Great, now it’s a must see...
Good generic name for all rap music
The “Twilight” novels are drug, booze and sex-free.
The central plotline is Bella wants to jump his bones AND be made into a vampire.
But our pale-faced hero cares too much to make her a monster and thinks she should lose her virginity to one of her own kind.
The author is a Mormon-in-good-standing. For crying out loud.
Monsignor Perazzolo needs to exercise a little imagination. Both “Twilight” and the Harry Potters draw a sharp line between good and evil and don’t glamorize bad behavior.
So many young people live in a moral vacuum that this movie should be right up their alley!
Mel
Shhh, don’t tell the Pope I love Dexter...
Twilight is teenage trash.
But good teenage trash.
But that's only the "text" of the story--the subtext, which everyone knows, is that these kinds of movies make the "bad boy" desirable.
I don't care one way or another about this garbage, but let's be serious here, these movies and books aren't popular because they are pleas for chastity--they're about how much fun it is to do the bad things the characters spout platitudes about.
I read a summary of the final book, and anyone trying to claim this stuff is just good clean fun is out to lunch.
Good thing the Vatican is on top of the really important issues facing us. We may end up as a broke-ass socialist country, but at least we won’t have that evil “Twilight” to worry about!
That's what I said.
Exactly.
The twilight movies are like Hanna Montana with Vampires.
There is soo much other garbage that comes out of Hollyweird the Vatican should go after.
Aren’t these the same guys who are going to have a significant announcement about E.T., soon?
Funny, that's what I call the government.
Seriously, I don’t think the UK Daily Mail is functionally capable of distinguishing “The Vatican” from “Anyone living in Italy”.
But if some spokesman for the actual Vatican said this, then good for them. People somehow don’t think the Vatican is allowed an opinion, but they will read any old cr*p from a secular reviewer.
As this film apparently impinges upon faith and morals, the Vatican can and should make their opinions known.
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