

Resistance, led by General Leia (the late Carrie Fisher, in her last The rest of the story (which I won’t spoil) involves the attempt by the Subjection to stimuli like a movie-theatre lab rat. Most of the movie’s twists and details, it provokes the feeling of So much else in the movie, it’s a conspicuously crafted, compulsoryĭetail to stoke a preprogrammed response in viewers. Onto it, inconsequentially, to add a nub of psychological conflict like Yes, the question of Rey’s identity, of her own sense of it, is To become a symbolic experience of independent power. Solitude, which wrenches itself out of the Star Wars cinematic universe The sequence is a major inspiration, a moment of conscience and One-woman crowd in a Busby Berkeley production number, snapping herįingers and chanting a line or two, echoing outward toward an endlessĬhorus line of Reys that seemingly recedes to infinity. Suddenly, there’s a dozen or more identical Reys, all moving in unison,īut then moving not in unison but in sequence, as if choreographed as a She beholds her own reflection, reaches out to it, and sees it multiply. While visiting Luke, Rey drops out of his sight for a moment and entersĪ hidden place in which she faces a vast subterranean mirrored curtain. Solo, now known as Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) has sworn fealty. Resistance to the First Order-to which the son of Han and Leia, Ben Of persuading Luke to come back and join her and the other heroes in the Of the new generation of heroes introduced in “The ForceĪwakens,” in 2015, goes to that forbidding, rocky, windswept retreat in the hope

Neo-medieval island hideout where Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) has longīeen sulking (shades of Achilles in the Iliad). It’s part of a sequence that takes place in a Purpose and creative power amid the two and a half wearying hours that Movie surrounding it that it virtually shouts its presence as the writerĪnd director Rian Johnson’s embedded showreel, his flourish of personal Mysterious, inspired, rich in overtones, and tenuously attached to the There’s a scene in the middle of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” that’s so
