Rey’s cave scene:

I’ve written before the metamessage of the movie is to deny the possibility of a coherent trajectory or “journey” through time, therefore it just counterdicts the very notion of identity (since it’s a femminist movie with a liberal ethos, it doesn’t matter who you are because you can be whoever you want to be, not even gender applies). In order to counterdict that notion of identity through time, life isn’t thought or represented as a coherent whole anymore, it’s just a sucession of frames.

We are the sum of different persons we’ve been through time. There’s not an “I” but an infinite sucession of Me(s). That’s why there are infinite Reys in line, from past to future.

Yet here’s the key, the Rey that claps her fingers in the past, ends up clapping them in the future, there’s a certain flow of events from past to future. When “our” Rey understands this, she understands what is at the end of the line, the invisible wire that connects his past present and future has an answer that is in the future: she is defined by the question on who her parents are.

The mirror is at the end of the line, so this tells us her life is defined by that quest, or the inverse, the quest to know who she is is what will end up defining her life. It doesn’t matter who her parents are, because she is defined solely by the question. That’s why in the end she is her parents in the mirror, she’s an orphan. She will always be. That is her true identity, or “the name of her movie”.

Nice movie, definitely the most intelectual Star Wars has gotten ever. Only I just don’t agree with its contents. As well as I just don’t agree with the fact that knowing who your parents are doesn’t add a sense of relief in the soul of an orphan.