"The Force Awakens" piloted by J.J. Abs flew cautiously, but Ryan Johnson's "The Last Jedi" was as surprising as Vice Admiral Holdo steered the ship to the Supreme. When K. Skywalker threw away the heroine Rey at once, and went through all the hardships he brought back to him with the lightsaber, it already showed that the movie was going to go down the "shabby" route.
There may be many viewers who will think that Lieutenant General Holdo is a traitor who lives on his own, that the villain Kylo Ren will change his mind, that Rey will be revealed to be Luke or Han Solo's daughter, that the black protagonist Finn and the newly-acquainted operator Rose Tico will be like the protagonist of "Samurai's Revenge" or "Star Wars Story", after breaking into the enemy's interior, he can finally successfully complete the mission... But these "thoughts" are like the heroine Rey's initial sense of the Force understanding is wrong! And the title of this film, which is taken from what Yoda said to Luke on his deathbed in the sixth film - "The Last Jedi", "misleads" the audience into equating it with Luke Skywalker, and let us Can't guess that Rey would put her last hope in Kylo Ren, who seems to have a conscience, because Luke refused to pick up the lightsaber (again "misleading" the audience), and added a tail paragraph to this book. A sense of "twist" or "tear down" as the title implies.
One of the biggest subversions of The Last Jedi is the character of Luke Skywalker. Because he sensed the darkness growing in his disciple Kylo Ren's heart, he once wanted to kill his disciple; but some comments mentioned that the former Luke, even in the face of the dark warrior who had fallen deeply into the dark side of the Force , can also believe that he can be brought back to the right path, why does Luke meet Kylo Ren who has not really gotten worse in this episode, but give up his "treatment"? I think in The Empire Strikes Back, Luke feels that it is impossible to use the Force to "lift" his own fighter jet, which reflects him, not necessarily as we imagined. firm. In some cases, Luke is actually easy to give up and impatient. Although he has grown up and has stronger beliefs in the future, he will occasionally want to give up (he was almost seduced by the dark side of the force when facing the emperor ), as if it was engraved in his genes, it didn't become like this in "The Last Jedi"; besides, Luke's idea of killing Kylo Ren also flashed by, and he would occasionally have such "" Ups and downs", it is the place where he has inherited from the past.
Luke Skywalker felt disappointed, ashamed, and guilty of himself because of a single thought deviation, and his previous belief in being able to "save" Darth Vader seems to be as strong as this guilt. Strong (the two are like the relationship between action and reaction), so big that it can directly prompt Luke to choose to escape/escape in this way, or refuse to get back his lightsaber (and he can face difficulties in the past. Like going up and down to influence Darth Vader, it all reflects his "stubborn" character). The more capable Luke, the more burden he bears, so much that he will doubt himself. The fourth to sixth episodes of Star Wars gradually established the myth of Luke Skywalker, but Ryan Johnson's "The Last Jedi Knight" first pushed him off the altar with a ravine on his face, Let the audience see the other side of its bright side, and also see a Luke whose shortcomings are magnified, or more like a real person.
Director Ryan Johnson, while boldly changing the setting of Star Wars in the past, will also pay tribute to the previous work in this film. Luke, who had escaped from the world, finally decided to train the heroine Rey, which reminds people of the training of Luke by Yoda who is also reclusive in "The Empire Strikes Back"; there is also the telepathy and dialogue between Rey and Kylo Ren. In "The Empire Strikes Back", Luke and Leah gradually began to have a similar spiritual connection; and the rebels' retreat/defeat in "The Last Jedi" echoes the plot of "The Empire Strikes Back"; at the end of the film, they Escape to the mining planet and the confrontation with the First Legion is somewhat similar to the snow battle at the beginning of The Empire Strikes Back.
Luke said when training heroine Rey, "The Force is a kind of tension, a kind of balance", which is like the yin and yang two qi shown in the Tai Chi diagram, which are opposite to each other and connected with each other. There is yin in yang, and yang in yin. . In the branch line where Finn and Rose Tico went to the casino planet to find decoding masters, we saw the oppression of the ant people behind the gorgeous planet, the well-dressed gamblers, but they got rich by buying and selling weapons; Sold to the First Army, but also to the Rebels, just like the mysterious DJ who is proficient in decoding, thinks that there is no good person or bad person, even himself, he will help Finn and Rose Tico get out of danger and sneak into the supreme. No., will also betray the two in order to get the benefits of the villain. This film focuses on the "interaction" between light and darkness, like Kylo Ren, who struggled more than the previous episode after breaking his black helmet, wandering between good and evil ( breaking the helmet mask and restoring his true self) , this scene once again reflects the intention of this film to remove the "mystery" and "legendary" of the Star Wars characters ); or the heroine Rey, who was almost lured into the dark side by Kylo Ren (because of the foreshadowing of the communication between the two Well done, so that the seduction scene was convincing); and Luke, who had suffered setbacks, was awakened by Yoda, who reappeared as a Jedi heroic spirit, and also realized the Jedi books that represent positive guidance. Although important, the experience of failure (the resistance in this film has failed many times) is equally important, it is like (or belongs to) the dark side of the Force, in the opposite direction, it can sometimes stimulate people's growth .
Through Luke's training plot with Rey, this film once again explains that the Force is not the power you have, but the energy that exists between all things. From this point of view, we will understand more why the director explained Rey's life experience in this way, even if she, like Anakin, was not born by a Jedi Knight, or even was born out of nowhere, or her parents picked up junk, you can get it Powerful force, become a so-called hero (the child who takes the broom at the end can also have the force). Ryan Johnson strives to break the "restrictions" set by past stories, and it is precisely the spirit of "inheriting" the Force. ".
One of the biggest "shocks" that the movie "The Last Jedi" gave me was when Luke was about to die. Luke's duel with Kylo Ren was overwhelmed by the phantoms projected by the Force; when he looked at the same fiery red sunset as his hometown Tatooine, and let go of his heart like a stone, the image in the film Combined with the familiar melodies written by John Williams, it can produce a remarkable, or evoking, appeal to our emotions and memories of the past. This appeal is what the previous "The Force Awakens" lacked. Even the scene in which Han Solo was killed was mainly based on sudden changes in the plot, rather than the powerful emotional power of the image itself. Give us impact. In addition, this film also exerted the magic of visual effects, so that they are not only decorative functions, in the scene of Lieutenant General Holdo jumping his ship to the speed of light and crashing into the Supreme, the sound and soundtrack suddenly stopped. , the "protagonist" has become a spectacular special effect on the screen, and it also makes the audience hold their breath, producing a shocking feeling that is overwhelming, epic, or rarely seen on the big screen in recent years!
Ryan Jonson's "The Last Jedi", despite the controversy over the protagonist's portrayal, also has many loopholes in the film (for example, the bomb dropped in space in the previous paragraph will do free-fall; the black protagonist Finn, who was just an ordinary person before) The Stormtrooper of the 1st Legion, but knows so many secrets of the First Legion...) However, in addition to the above advantages, the film's dialogue also inherits the fine tradition of the fourth to sixth Star Wars, starting from Poe Dameron's line "Have done something crazier than this", echoing what he said in "The Force Awakens" that "these thugs are nothing to be afraid of", and showed that this character is not only brave and fearless, but also has a bit of self-righteousness. Director Ryan Johnson boldly made this film break through from the conservative style of the previous episode. Although he was like a resistance army on a mining planet, facing the onslaught of gunfire from the audience/Star Wars fans, he could hold on. The most important of these is the value or spark that can be renovated while integrating the old works!
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