Friday, November 21, the movie “Twilight” opened in United States theaters, driving teenage girls, whom the production targets as the largest part of its audience, into a whirlwind of sighs and sobs over the intricate romance between Bella Swan and Edward Cullen.

Bella Swan, portrayed by actress Kristen Stewart, is a teenager who goes to live with her father Charlie in Forks, Washington, after her mother remarries and moves to Florida with her husband.

Never craving to fit in or go with the trend her peers follow, Bella leads an ordinary life until she meets Edward Cullen, played by Robert Pattinson, whom she later falls in love with.

Unfortunately for her, Edward is not quite what one might describe as an ordinary man, so as to perfectly meet Bella’s needs and comply with her way of life, since it turns out he is actually a vampire who has not aged since 1918 and is also endowed with some special powers, as he can stop a moving car with his bare hands.

The silver lining on this dark cloud of immortality is that Cullen is part of vampire clan that does not feed on human blood, preying on animals instead, which for a while at least, renders the girl safe from having the blood literally sucked out of her body.

Still, as time goes by and the two grow fonder of each other, Edward’s primal instinct starts to claim his rights and the vampire has to strive to restrain himself from yielding to it.

As the “Twilight”story unfurls, rife with the usual teenage issues-prom, prom dress, prom date and so on-Bella and Edward are trying to cope with their complex and no so worldly problems, caught between their love for each other and the vampire’s underlying lust for human blood.

Since the movie’s viewers are mostly teenagers, teenage girls, to be precise, one cannot help but wonder whether the whole “vegetarian” vampire spin on the production is not actually a plea for abstinence in disguise.

Strolling through a land of metaphors, we are left to see that Bella’s blood is a rather poorly thought out symbol of her innocence, while Edward’s struggle with his thirst for the girl’s blood is “Twilight’s” way of saying boys are only after one thing.

Even the movie’s title seems to be some sort of a statement on the matter of delayed gratification, urging young girls to wait, well not until their twilight years, but at least until they get to know the boy better and maybe make sure he’s not from the underworld of vampires. Vampire, as in the ultimate bad boy looking for a young girl on whose emotions and lack of life experience to prey.

So, here’s some food for thought. Is “Twilight” a vampire movie that lacks the very essence of such movies-a good bite in the neck of a defenseless lady that turns her into a slave for both her love and the object of that affection-or a life lesson for teenage girls?

One thing is clear, though: when it comes to trust, a vampire in lust is never a good idea. Especially when he’s on a no-blood diet.