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In “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” Finn is going to pay the ultimate sacrifice by dying to stop the First Order from completely destroying the Resistance. Rose stops him, citing “love.”
While I entirely oppose war, I struggle to understand the scene.
If you are going to die, let alone if your house (it was the Resistance base) was being attacked through no fault of your own, you shouldn’t defend yourself?
And that is besides doing it through dying for others. Also, Finn was going to take out a machine.
Is the scene even hippie?
I have thought about the scene a lot because I realize that only using the word “love” as a buzzword, without any reason, can also invite abuse. The abused could (but shouldn’t) tell themselves to merely “love” their abuser just as a polygamist girl could “keep sweet,” as fundamentalist church elders have told girls to do.
This is beside the shaming of someone willing to pay the ultimate sacrifice.
The scene is not just one of the most absurd I have ever seen in a film. It also sent backward messages so nonsensical it invites unintended consequences. Which also come from philosophies director Rian Johnson might claim is opposite the point he so obnoxiously tried to get across here.
I am fine with the film overall. I really am. I mean to comment on pop culture, let alone the most popular of pop culture, sending poor messages like inviting abuse. (Or death, in the case of this myth.)
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