
The best scene out of New Moon (and the only one that really deserves mention) is where Thom Yorke's amazing song "Hearing Damage" is played. The redheaded vamp weaves together all the scenes, running, jumping, swimming.
Everyone else around her in this scene ends up dead, is defeated, and the vision of her sends the main character Bella into a fear that leaves her unconscious. At the end of the scene, the song finishes and we see Victoria's head in the water on the horizon. So while all the main characters are having overwhelming emotional crises, there is something deadly permanent about the redheaded vamps presence that seems to magnify the reality of what those emotional crises are really about: death, the wanting of death, the carelessness we take in life, the desire of darkness. All coupled with Thom Yorke singing about letting the voices in and the overwhelming sense of inner despondency. The main character, Bella, jumps off a cliff, to her delight survives and then is pounded mercilessly with violent waves of awareness and the reality of her love: DEATH DEATH DEATH.
A scene like this makes me wish the source material was better. The character of Victoria (and the actress that portrays her is supernatural in her portrayal of the emotional complexity of this scene) along with these themes would be a great book and far more cohesive instead of Mormon interludes about vampires having souls. Because obviously what this scene evokes in the whole Twilight series... is that when reality hits home, loss, abandonment, darkness... that there is absolutely no "morality", no life, no will for life. The whole series seems to be about this ritual incantation into lifelessness and death, but we only see the personal violence of this in 5 minutes.. and then we go back to believing the story is about true love, high school and relationships. It is not. The series makes a serious claim for darkness.
But I love Thom Yorke and only he could evoke the truth out of something like this. Thanks Thom!!