I see a lot of people sharing this image to show Rey is unhappy with her found family. That’s not my read at all. Rey *is* an emotional wreck. Who wouldn’t be? She *is* sad about Ben. But she had to get herself out of Exegol. She sees her friends and knows it’s safe to be sad. 1-
Yes. That’s the look of a sad, broken, crying face. In the arms of two people she can feel vulnerable with and accepted by. One of my favorite parts of this hug is how different each feels but they’re together. 2-
Poe is the happiest. He lost people but they just won the war. He’s going to have the least complicated feelings. Finn is just happy to have his friends. He has tears, but those of relief. He just felt Rey die, he almost died. Now he’s holding the two who matter most to him 3-
Rey has a LOT going on. She lost Ben. She’s now taking time to fully process everything w/ Palpatine. She won, she stood with the Jedi. She died. She lived. She lost. But she can do it holding tight to someone. She’s all raw emotion. & she feels safe to do that in a celebration 4
So yes. She’s sad here. But she has the freedom to be sad. She has the freedom to feel. If she was all happy here that would have been far, far more torn apart would it not? She’s not sad about her found family. She sad with them. 5/5
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