I went to see The Last Jedi with my best friend just before Christmas. And I didn’t realize it going in, but I really needed to close this year with a movie about failure.Luke fails as a teacher and an uncle, Leia fails as a mother, Rey fails to redeem Kylo Ren, Poe and Finn and Rose fail in their desperate mission, the Resistance fails to hold out against the First Order, the allies of the Resistance fail to turn up and save the day. Everyone fails.But the characters somehow grow up and deal with it. Luke finally finds peace. Leia realizes her legacy is not Ben but Poe, who in turn realizes that he doesn’t always have to be a dashing hero, and that sometimes it’s okay to retreat without achieving anything. Rey stops trying to redeem a man who won’t give up the darkness, and comes back home to the rebels.And Finn and Rose were two young, inexperienced, ordinary soldiers on an impossible mission. Of course they failed. Impossible missions usually fail, and I’d basically forgotten that. Miracles are supposed to be rare. And when Finn thinks he has to make up for his fuckup by sacrificing his life to take out the battering ram cannon, he’s saved because he made a friend who wanted to save him. That’s all it takes, and it was really nice. I like to think the whole point of the Finn and Rose storyline was that you DON’T have to die for your failures. You’re human, and sometimes you’re up against just too damn much.Anyway, that’s what I thought. Please don’t yell at me guys. I’m gonna try and be easier and kinder on myself in the next year, and not hold myself or other people to impossible standards. And I just really liked the movie and wanted to say something about it. via /r/StarWars http://ift.tt/2C9ahFe
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