Star Wars

Star Wars was one of the major films of our time that changes cinema and created a whole new world for film: space. Never before had there been such a huge, intense movie made that took place entirely in different worlds. I remember my dad took my little brother and me as soon as the Digitally Remastered Version hit the theatres. I have always been a fan of these films because they make us look to the sky and wonder if there really is anything crazy going on out there. The fact that humans have very little of the technology portrayed in the movie but it is all based on our technology makes us wonder if these fantastic ships and planets and aliens are a real part of the universe we don’t know much about. The movies are really the story of Anakin Skywalker and how he was thought to be the hope for all good in the galaxy but he turns to the Dark Side of evil. The movies play hard on the good Jedi race defending liberty and justice pitted against the evil Sith who want to kill and corrupt. We can read this as George Lucas’s ideas on spiritual warfare as we see the real battle is for minds hearts and loyalty instead of men and land. The battlefield of space makes the factors of men and land irrelevant, we are forced to look into the personal battle each of many memorable characters fights as they decide which side they will fight for. These movies make us look into ourselves and make that same decision within ourselves.