@GirlontheProwl here, after a summer of relentless fun, these past couple of weeks of being back at uni (short for University) have been what I’d like to describe as insufferable. Now while I have many words to describe my kinship with this institution of learning—tiresome, back-aching, spirit-breaking, tear-inducing—I decided I was due for a much-needed break. However, like every university student out there, when I say break I really mean a long period of procrastination because let’s face it, there is no such thing as having a break at uni. So I decided what better way to take my “break” than by re-watching one of my favourite movies—Beautiful Creatures.

Now, I know what you’re all thinking, “isn’t that a book?” Yes, yes it is, but as an English major, I read all day, every day and sometimes all you really need is a nice, witty, and light movie to take you away from this thing we like to call life. So here we go, this movie first made its debut in the winter of 2013 only to be limited by its reviews. It was claimed to be the next Twilight, and so the marketing for this movie regretfully limited its audience and for many, the value of the movie. But Beautiful Creatures not only defies its limitations, it offers us an intelligent source of entertainment.

So go on and follow the clever witticisms of Lena Duchannes and Ethan Wates to the small town of Gatlin, where Civil War reenactments are the town’s source of amusement and where gospel worshippers expel the works of Vonnegut and Salinger as Satanic. But don’t let this discourage you from watching because this movie is nothing short of intelligentsia. We are offered insights from Bob Dylan and Bukowski, honored with sarcasm and humour, and last but not least thrown amidst an atypical romance plagued by a family curse.

So why this movie? Well, as Charles Bukowski once wrote: “The area dividing the brain and the soul
 is affected in many ways by experience–Some lose all mind and become soul: 
insane.
 Some lose all soul and become mind: 
intellectual.
 Some lose both and become:
 accepted.” Fighting with fate, Lena Duchannes has a limited number of days to find out if she is destined for dark magic or light, but life throws her an unexpected curve ball that leaves her determined to find a way around it. But as we know, magic has its price, so what will it be? Mind, soul, or both? Ask yourselves, what would you do if your destiny lay in the hands of fate? Would you choose to fight it, or would you accept the darkness that calls to you like a siren at sea?

Go on, tempt fate, and enjoy the magic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7DlUCtgjo8

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