So is that the editor admitting that Kylo Ren’s was the primary character arc for not just this movie but the trilogy?
Where is she saying that? I kind of took it to mean not just Kylo but the Rey Palpatine thing.
I started to type out “or that Rey is ‘bad’ but because she had hope and kept an open mind she was ‘good’” but decided against it and deleted that, because that’s such a myopic/misguided read of her character I didn’t think that’s what they were referencing. Rey being descended of Palpatine doesn’t make her “bad” at her core/nature, especially since her parents were also not evil.
If the main point of the movie is 1-to-1 describing Kylo Ren’s character and arc it’s hard not to think that was the primary concern going into the project. What was said was :
Basically, the message of the film is, ‘Hey you know what? You can be bad and good can come into your life. And maybe if you’re open-minded to it, extraordinary things can change your mind. And you have to believe there’s always hope.’”
The message of the film is Kylo Ren’s arc. There’s not really any other way to parse that statement, because it doesn’t really track with anyone else. Certainly not Rey, because she was never “bad” and good didn’t come into her life, she was the good that came into everyone else’s.
I guess that makes sense, but I’m not really sure what conclusion you’re coming to from that fact. I doubt she even means that that’s the only message they were aiming for - in the full quote she says “In a time when the whole world is polarized, it should not be a film that is polarizing” before that bit. So I think she’s just highlighting that notion because she’s saying the film is promoting coming together rather than polarization. And that is an idea the film is trying to get at (poorly), working together.