The Last Jedi Movie Analysis

Star Wars has been sweeping the nation for over forty years now. Adults and children are obsessed with the space family, The Skywalkers, saga. The newest film introduced into the second trilogy, The Last Jedi, has made over 1.32 billion dollars globally since it opened in December 2017 (Forbes). Although there have been many bad reviews, in my opinion The Last Jedi was one of the best films in the franchise, besides The Empire Strikes Back. The reasoning behind why I think this is because of the way the movie connects with the other movies in the saga. Also because of the events that took place in the movie, and lastly the death of Luke Skywalker.
In The Last Jedi there is a scene towards the end of the movie picturing Luke Skywalker sitting

Some of the major events include a “death” scene of General Leia Organa and the training of Rey with Master Skywalker. At the start of the movie The First Order and the Resistance are in a standoff after Resistance bombers destroyed on of the biggest ships The First Order had. In an attempt to end the Resistance, Kylo Ren and a few Stormtroopers hope to end the Resistance. When faced with the choice to blast Leia and the other commanders, Kylo cannot bring himself to do it. The reason behind this is because Leia is his mother. While Kylo was able to kill his father with no guilt, he cannot do the same with his mother. As Kylo backs off the trigger, a stormtrooper finishes the job and blasts Leia and the other commander into space. As Kylo flies away, Leia is seen floated in space, stiff and still. This came as quite a shock to the audience but at the same time we expected it due to the death of the actor, Carrie Fisher. When Leia is out in space, portrayed as being dead, her hand moves and she uses the force to bring herself back to what is left of the ship (The Last Jedi). The scene has been described as the “trippy scene in which a character floats into resurrection” (Dargis 8). This is the first time in the Star Wars Saga that Leia has used the force. Because Leia is a Skywalker, the force is very strong with her, but no one could’ve predicted that she could save her own life by using the

Once on the lonely island where Luke is found, Rey is set on him coming back with her to the resistance to stop Kylo Ren and The First Order. Luke refuses to help Rey because he believes that he is no help and is set to die alone on the island. After days of following and convincing him, Rey finally gets to have a training session. As they are in the process of training, Luke discovers that Rey is more powerful than he thought. Rey is not only strong with the light side of the force but is also strong with the dark side. This scares Luke because he has “seen this raw strength before, it didn’t scare me then. It does now” (The Last Jedi). This event is important to the story because all throughout the movie characters have this mindset that Luke is the last Jedi and the only hope for the Resistance, when this isn’t true at all. Rey at the end of the movie is seen lifting thousand of big boulders with the force. This takes a lot of strength and is something not many Jedi can do. This proving that Rey is strong with the force and is capable of carrying on the traditions of the ways of the