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It& #39;s hard to explain to people who liked TROS why Rey& #39;s ending is problematic because you have to deal with the way that movie can maniulate emotions.
Like, we say that Rey is sad and depressed by the end of the movie, but the problem is she doesn& #39;t seem to be sad. She& #39;s light, up, and smiling all the time. She seems proud and relieved. And to some people this is enough. She seems happy, so she must be.
So they work their way around this to make their own interpretations about the reasons of this happiness. They buy into the explanation that she wanted to be a Skywalker, that she doens& #39;t loved Ben that much, and that her friends is all she need.
So how do you explain to these people that the problem is the incongruity between what& #39;s being showed and the story that is being told?
She seems happy, but she doesn& #39;t have a real reason to be happy at all.
1. Being a Skywalker was never her goal, and there& #39;s a great difference between wanting to be a Skywalker and wanting belonging.
2. She was separated from the men she loved
3. Her relationship
1. Being a Skywalker was never her goal, and there& #39;s a great difference between wanting to be a Skywalker and wanting belonging.
2. She was separated from the men she loved
3. Her relationship
with her friends where never developed our resolved in a satisfying way
4. The Skywalkers, the family she chosed are now obliterated
5. And she end up alone in a desert planet, looking to a sunset that means nothing to her.
BUT even with all that, she still smling
4. The Skywalkers, the family she chosed are now obliterated
5. And she end up alone in a desert planet, looking to a sunset that means nothing to her.
BUT even with all that, she still smling
And that& #39;s because the movie isn& #39;t aware or refuse to acknowlegde that is telling a tragedry. They want us to believe that this is a hopefull story, so they made Rey smile, even if she doesn& #39;t have a reason to smile.
The editing, the soundtrack, the iconography,
The editing, the soundtrack, the iconography,
the acting, all that is made to make YOU feel joy, even if the story being told is not joyfull.
That& #39;s is problem with Rey& #39;s arc and with that ending. They expect us to be fooled for an appearence of happiness without actually delivering it.
That& #39;s is problem with Rey& #39;s arc and with that ending. They expect us to be fooled for an appearence of happiness without actually delivering it.
But what annoys me more about this subject is that how do you PROVE your point of view if the messages the movie give are contradictory? Like, I always have to work with personal interpretations, projecting, and the simple fact that these people were fooled by the movie.
And in the end, they will just dismiss all of that as nitpicking, as me wanting to hate the movie.
This is REALLY frustrating to me. I just wanted these people to realize that this movie isn& #39;t being authentic, and it& #39;s not our job to creat motivations to what we see in the story
This is REALLY frustrating to me. I just wanted these people to realize that this movie isn& #39;t being authentic, and it& #39;s not our job to creat motivations to what we see in the story
This is THEIR job. THEY have to explain to me why Rey would be happy with her friends when in the same movie, she said nobody know her. This line NEVER has a pay-off, and it& #39;s not my job inventing one. This means, that the movie is defective
I don& #39;t think I really made any sense here, but anyway
