There is definitely some sort of messaging going on in the Last Jedi. SPOILER Why else spend half the movie on a pointless and ultimately destructive sidequest? The rebelliousness of the rebellion shoots itself in the foot. The thief seems to have the most insightful line in the move, that the war is essentially a machine making money for the arms trade. I guess the point is meant to be, if Jedi are really trying to bring harmony to the force, their good vs. evil fight is not very effective.
Millennials Strike Back: An Esoteric Reading of the Last Jedi
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#32I know it's satirical, but the authors have a point. Everyone in the movie in a position of authority has no clue about tactics or strategy or a plan that's likely to work.
(In 20th century history, WWI was the war of the clueless generals, while in WWII, both sides had relatively competent leadership.)
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#33I actually enjoyed this interpretation. In a way it kind of made me less disappointed that I watched that entire crappy-ass movie.
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#34I don't think millennials saw TLJ as a metaphor for baby boomer disillusionment so much as a crushing disappointment that Ewan MacGregor didn't stride into a cameo as the inexplicable forbearer to Rey.
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#35Disney didn't pay a few billion for the Star Wars property to just end the war. The resistance/rebels will be fighting forever.
“The military movie industrial complex is strong in he young one”
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#36Interesting! Last Jedi was quite disappointing for me, so I'm glad the authors here managed to bring some meaning to it.
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#37Assuming this is at all serious (which I doubt), it would be a rather cynical, facile, and insipid reading of both The Last Jedi and history itself. The most egregious point (of the many to choose from that I could dissect) is the following: > But she has absorbed the rebels’ self-serving narrative, and it prevents her from realizing that the Skywalkers and the Rebellion—or Resistance, or whatever they are calling th…
The empires are just attempting to establish peace throughout the universe. The rebels, on the other hand, appear to want chronic instability and violence, getting entire civilizations obliterated due to their dislike for authority figures.
Maybe the authority figures don't need to respond by obliterating entire civilizations?
I think it's enough that a guy like Snopes or Palpatine wanted to control the galaxy to rebel against that.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't speak for everyone, but I would definitely have bought tickets to Star Peace. Especially over "Star Wars: even more cgi edition".
I can see it now. Two hours of Luke, Leia and Han just hanging out talking about how awesome things are without the empire, maybe make fun of C3PO a bit have a few drinks then just cruise around checking out how chill all the planets are now.
I'm sure they could still manage to get into some side adventures.
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#39Assuming this is at all serious (which I doubt), it would be a rather cynical, facile, and insipid reading of both The Last Jedi and history itself. The most egregious point (of the many to choose from that I could dissect) is the following: > But she has absorbed the rebels’ self-serving narrative, and it prevents her from realizing that the Skywalkers and the Rebellion—or Resistance, or whatever they are calling th…
The empires are just attempting to establish peace throughout the universe. The rebels, on the other hand, appear to want chronic instability and violence, getting entire civilizations obliterated due to their dislike for authority figures.
The Empire did nothing wrong!!!
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#40Assuming this is at all serious (which I doubt), it would be a rather cynical, facile, and insipid reading of both The Last Jedi and history itself. The most egregious point (of the many to choose from that I could dissect) is the following: > But she has absorbed the rebels’ self-serving narrative, and it prevents her from realizing that the Skywalkers and the Rebellion—or Resistance, or whatever they are calling th…
>The answer is "not fascism."
And yet they are continually giving birth to it.
The clone army becomes the storm troopers of the empire.
The senator of the republic becomes the emperor.
Anakin becomes Vader.
Luke trains Kylo.
It seems a negative statement is not a viable solution, which is what Luke realized.