He may want to archive the ancient Jedi texts, but he is reluctant to help the Resistance fight the First Order.Ī living legend, he has failed, as he admits himself, to live up to the expectations of the galaxy’s repressed people. When the scene is completed here, Luke unceremoniously throws it away. Luke Skywalker represents an organisation that can no longer be trusted to do the right thing.Īt the end of The Force Awakens we saw Rey handing Luke his old lightsaber, amid soaring music and with a sense of poignancy. Where once there was a new hope, The Last Jedi is more cynical about the future and the resources available to bring change. Not overt racism, but reminiscent of a US administration that has advocated racist policies.

This latter difference is thrown into sharp relief when the white Captain Phasma attempts to destroy Finn and Rose, two Resistance fighters of colour, calling them “scum”. The First Order’s arch enemy, General Leia Organa, meanwhile stands in for Hillary Clinton – another woman with too little support for her political agenda, with the air of a lost cause, whose loyalists happen to be much more ethnically diverse than their opponents. Dressed in a grey suit, he is less Darth Vader and more Donald Trump Jr. Facing Luke Skywalker in a duel, Kylo also removes his cloak. Where, in The Force Awakens, Kylo harboured fantasies of being the next Darth Vader, here Snoke sneers that he should “take that ridiculous” mask off. In spreading fear among citizens and dismantling liberal institutions, its leaders also resemble ordinary businessmen and politicians.

Since its rise to power, the First Order has obsessively undermined the ideologies of the former New Republic, which calls to mind Trump repealing Obama-era legislation in areas such as health and welfare.

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