[Roughneck]

Originally Posted by SuperMatt18

https://filmcrithulk.blog/2017/12/15...-of-star-wars/

Thought this was an interesting take, and explains why the views on the movie are so divisive.

If you want Star Wars to be about the lore, and believe it should always focus on the “Skywalker” family, then you’re probably not going to like the direction this movie takes to re-focus the series away from that.

You can argue the one “dalliance” of the film is the action on what I’ll be too lazy to google and just call “Monte Carlo planet.” But it’s also the most thematically important because it’s where the entire Skywalker point made above comes into focus. No, not just in the clear criticism of high society and war profiteering, but deeper within the sights of nameless young children who are put under the thumb of the world. And who, within them so innately carry the understanding of the horrors of that world, and thus so tangibly know the simple, inescapable ways for it to be better. And so, within that simple, final speech about what really matters in this big old universe that we share, it’s not about Skywalkers or whose bloodline is most powerful or whose dad can beat up your dad… it’s about that equally simple, final image.
A young child cleaning a stable.
Who dreams of being more.
The force belongs to them, too.
And so it belongs to us.

It will definitely be unique to see a Star Wars movie about a downtrodden and imprisoned child (figuratively or literally) who dreams of something bigger and has the Force become a key part of their journey...