The latter is your erroneous interpretation of other people’s arguments including my own. I never stated Star Wars is devoid of symbolism and moral lessons, and nor did anyone else. Nobody but you claims “simple escapism” and symbolism and moral lessons are mutually exclusive. In fact you seem to treat the idea of simple escapism with an amount of disdain.
The entire conversation stemmed from this comment made by someone else:
“”“So Star Wars is now a learning-lessons-about-life-meta-documentary which uses a fictional space fantasy fairy tale as a backdrop some old bearded guy invented in the 70s?
Meh.
Star Wars should be about escapism, not realism.”""I said that that storytelling style has always been present in Star Wars and if you don’t think so, then you didn’t understand the other movies either. I stand by that statement.
I was not insulting anyone. It was not a personal attack. Just my advice to go back an look at the other Star Wars movies in a different light.
I disagree with you. There’s a marked difference in storytelling style between Lucas’ films and TLJ in my view in particular in the way Lucas shaped his modern myth, and in the way Johnsom deconstructs that myth, only to reconstruct in a more post-modern context. There’s a difference between viewing the original films in their original context, and by viewing them in the context TLJ provides. Some of us might be inclined to suggest the movies were always meant to be seen in this light, but I’m inclined to disagree, and believe Lucas would as well.