Thoughts about The Last Jedi *SPOILERS*

"Let the Past die. Kill it if you have to." - Kylo Ren

Well I certainly wasn't expecting an iconoclastic message from one of the largest and most well known movie franchises when I viewed The Last Jedi.

Like the most striking visual from the film, Rian Johnson took this newest addition to the franchise and jump to light speed right into the franchise in the best way. 

It's obvious that Rian gets Star Wars watching it and, with love, took a torch to the this sacred cow, this ancient tree of knowledge with deep roots and lore, because it wants you to return to a symbolism of Star Wars rather than the dogma. You, the viewer, have no choice but to ask yourself what Star Wars means to you. Rian hopes you also ask, what this franchise could mean to you, too.

Rian knows what we expect to happen and lets us sometimes have things happen the way we think they should, things happen for reasons we didn't expect, and all new things happening. 

His voice was so clear in this movie through Luke's words. Luke's retrospective on the Jedi Order is almost a naked look at the franchise in general. Our dogma and obsession with rituals (why things are the way they are in Star Wars) need to go away. We stagnate and from good things (Original Trilogy) comes the bad (Prequels). 

I was shocked at how subversive that message was. In many ways this theme resonates into the real world as a stunning force choke hold on the late capitalist United States. His remarks about the bloated institutions not saving us and the movie ending with a force sensitive child looking hopeful was indicative of a conscious awakening proletariat. Almost.

​Watch this movie.