«Star Wars Episode IX: Skywalker's Ascension»

Cinema Wednesdays - Loris S. Musumeci

It's the final battle! Let's band together, and tomorrow the galaxy will be at peace! While the First Order grows ever more powerful, under the macabre and secretive leadership of a resurrected Palpatine, the Resistance is experiencing some difficulties. Two are the warrior hopefuls. Two characters whose opposition was brought to the screen with finesse in Episode VIII: Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), the fallen son of Princess Leia and Han Solo, and Rey (Daisy Ridley), the Jedi apprentice in search of stability and identity. Palpatine may be powerful, but without his warrior Kylo, he's powerless. And the Resistance is pinning all its hopes on Rey.

Following the’episode VIII, the saga seems to be returning to its roots. Fans and experts criticized the previous episode for its independence from the entire third trilogy. Which is exactly what I liked and agreed with in 2017, since it was through this film that I first got to know the great modern stellar myth with its characters, families, blood, lightsaber battles and internal struggles.

Rian Johnson's directorial work reached me more than J. J. Abrams' for the latter. opus. Through his freedom of tone and his own reflections - blasphemous for some - he had nourished Star Wars a philosophical depth never before achieved. For Skylwalker's Ascension, Episode IX, J. J. Abrams is content to satisfy the public. He invents nothing, dares nothing, makes no headway.

His film is nevertheless easy to watch, and the richness of Star Wars family tragedies, epic battles and humor. The only downside is that the humor is a little too much a part of the story. private joke. But, I maintain, the main interest of the last episode lies in the continuation of what Johnson had created: the relationship between Kylo and Rey. Deep and fusional, it testifies to all the genius of Star WarsThe evolution of the characters as they are torn between good and evil.

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