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R<\/span>egardless of whether you think any film franchise containing the word \u201cStar\u201d in its title is a total nerd-fest, you need to sit down and watch <\/p>Star Wars<\/em>. We don\u2019t care if you\u2019d rather watch douchey dudebros beat up the bad guys while ad-libbing lines that would make a fourth-grader scoff, you need to know that Star Wars: The Last Jedi <\/em>is the best recap of 2017 you will see on screen.\n\n

Star Wars isn\u2019t about space aliens fighting each other with what you\u2019d describe as fluorescent tube lights and space ships blowing each other up.<\/blockquote>\n\nThere\u2019s nuance behind all that CGI, and themes that ensure The Last Jedi<\/em> is a fine example of art imitating life. \n\nVis a vis the most recent movies, Rogue One<\/em> and The Force Awakens<\/em>, there’s a couple of recurring themes. Firstly, there’s the breaking down of privilege, as Rey the lead character and Jedi-to-be comes from nothing. She didn’t come from a place of privilege or a pre-ordained lineage to become a Jedi, much like Anakin Skywalker aka Darth Vader. Isn\u2019t this reflective of the entire class-privilege debate raging all over the world, especially in our own country?\n\nSimply put, Rey isn\u2019t a sarvana, upper-class, Brahmanical male who realises his destiny and takes over the world, with a little help from his papa. For starters, she\u2019s a woman, which already puts her on the wrong side of the great gender divide, which we will come to later. More importantly, she\u2019s a scavenger, living and subsisting on the detritus of higher-ups, who gets thrust into the spotlight and is immediately expected to do #epicshit. Her arc makes a host of people come to mind, both on- and off-screen, prime among them President Ramnath Kovind and Rajkumar Rao\u2019s character in Newton<\/em><\/a>. The narrative is one we\u2019ve come to expect, one man trying to change the world. But factor in that they\u2019re up against a faceless, omnipresent foe called the caste system, and the parallels to Rey immediately become that much clearer.\n \nLike God needs the Devil, every narrative needs a bad guy to rep its underlying rottenness. Enter Supreme Leader Snoke, an egotistical narcissist under the impression that the Resistance needs to be wiped out purely because it exists and has views at odds with his own. He has limitless resources at his disposal and believes himself to be more powerful than Darth Vader. He feels undermined and challenged by The Force and its inherently feminine energy. You can see where I\u2019m going with this. \n\n
If you can\u2019t, Google the words \u201cBorder\u201d and \u201cWall\u201d, or \u201cGujarat\u201d and \u201c2002\u201d, or \u201cUP\u201d and \u201cCM\u201d.<\/blockquote>\n\nThese gentlemen, one the leader of the free world, the second the supreme leader of the under-construction Akhand Bharat, and the third an out-and-out nutjob, could method act the shit out of Snoke without breaking a sweat. Did someone say state-sanctioned persecution? Or gratuitous abuse of power? Or even a junta in democracy\u2019s clothing? Well, Snoke and these other gents are peas in a pod. I wonder whether the Hindi dub of the film will have Snoke say the words, \u2018Khaate hai Force ki kasam, Death Star yahin banayenge\u2019\n\nTo wrap this up in a neat little bow, we finally see a more ethnically diverse cast, rather than just white people and aliens, especially with John Boyega\u2019s Finn, and Riz Ahmed\u2019s Bodhi Rook in Rogue One<\/em>. However, the one sentiment that should echo throughout is millennial angst and its poster boy, Kylo Ren, played by Girls<\/em> alumnus Adam Driver. Struggling to come to terms with his identity, riddled with guilt over the death of his dad Han Solo, and desperate to fill the mask of his maternal granddaddy, Darth Vader, watching Kylo Ren struggle with these aspects of his life and the torrent of emotions he stifles to be #deadinside 24×7 is like holding a mirror to our daily lives. \n\nAnd lastly, we return to the great gender divide, like I promised earlier. With The Force Awakens and hopefully The Last Jedi, we\u2019re gradually seeing women assume a position of power, with the female Stormtrooper sergeant in The Force Awakens<\/em> and General (formerly Princess) Leia Organa. We\u2019ve seen women take on greater roles across the galactic empire. They\u2019re flying X-wings, commanding troops, and kicking ass overall, as compared to simply generating reports, warning of imminent danger, screaming in the face of said danger and then getting taken prisoner, waiting to be rescued while they become slaves, or worse, sex slaves, in the earlier movies. Before, they were eye candy \u2013 remember Carrie Fisher and her bikini as Princess Leia in the Return of The Jedi<\/em> where she\u2019s helpless and gets captured by Jabba the Hutt to serve his every need until Han Solo and the boys come to her rescue? Well, it\u2019s 2017 and women ain\u2019t having none of that shit. They\u2019d rather die giving the bad guys a black eye than become trophies for the Empire. \n\nAdd to this the omnipresent threat of annihilation at work, unless they surrender to the whims of a creepy older guy who\u2019s infinitely more powerful (Snoke), and you\u2019ve got yourself an accurate AF depiction of the gender hostility that has come to define 2017. It takes balls to blow that whistle and weather the storm that arises, and a multitude of women have done just that, so taking one single name from the movie wouldn\u2019t do them all justice.\n\nIf this isn\u2019t a look back at 2017 and all its major milestones, I don\u2019t know what is. Instead of looking at social media listicles about what went down this year, go watch The Last Jedi<\/em>; it\u2019s got all the above and space aliens fighting each other with fluorescent tube lights and space ships blowing each other up.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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