More Star Warsiness
Dec. 21st, 2017 04:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
labingiMy partner put me on to this article on The Last Jedi defying expectations, and I'm going to pass along the recommendation. It's a good discussion of how The Last Jedi touches on some scary things in life and why this is good at the same it can be difficult to take.
For me, this article articulates something I've been feeling about this film, seeing it in my forties, at time when I feel somewhat battered by life myself and decidedly not young anymore. Now, I don't mean my life is particularly upsetting. I feel psychologically more sound than I did in my younger life. I just feel very aware of accumulated weights of life, whether that's measured in physical infirmity, flagging memory, shrinking time and hope for accomplishing goals/seeing social change, scars (and lessons) of various errors and emotional injuries, and a general sense that I've done half of it and the remaining half is starting to seem less and less important (on a cosmic sort of level). I'm younger than Luke and Leia, but I feel with them a lot. I feel for the younger guard too but am keenly aware I don't have their energy, even in a less superhero-esque mundane sense. The movie captures that difference very well. It's very true to both youth and age. I think it came at just the right time in my life, and that's probably one reason I'm liking it more and more the more I think about it.
For me, this article articulates something I've been feeling about this film, seeing it in my forties, at time when I feel somewhat battered by life myself and decidedly not young anymore. Now, I don't mean my life is particularly upsetting. I feel psychologically more sound than I did in my younger life. I just feel very aware of accumulated weights of life, whether that's measured in physical infirmity, flagging memory, shrinking time and hope for accomplishing goals/seeing social change, scars (and lessons) of various errors and emotional injuries, and a general sense that I've done half of it and the remaining half is starting to seem less and less important (on a cosmic sort of level). I'm younger than Luke and Leia, but I feel with them a lot. I feel for the younger guard too but am keenly aware I don't have their energy, even in a less superhero-esque mundane sense. The movie captures that difference very well. It's very true to both youth and age. I think it came at just the right time in my life, and that's probably one reason I'm liking it more and more the more I think about it.
