Mirror for the Mankind

Rating: Null/10 (16 August 2002)

This second part of His Genius George Lucas presents us two things:
1) A nice movie, well illustrated by good (and partly excellent) actors. There are action, suspense, romance and impressing animations. - All what a traditional movie defines. It's well chosen there's not a lot of humor, because it would not match to the complete Star Wars Story. There are two scenes which touched my soul. First: The dying of the mother. To rescue his mother, Anakin risked the safety of Amidala and became unfaithful in his mission. In the moment he found her, Shmi dies. Second: Padmé confesses her love to Anakin at the sight of death. It's one of the points which define our human nature, to desire what we may not have. Such touching scenes make a movie become alive. I remember the scene in Episode one, when young Ani leaves his mother to start an unknown way of destination. Two years after the movie I still have tears in my eyes watching this scene on DVD. Episode 1 to 3 is needed to guide us to Episode 4 to 6, which already exist, paradoxically. But that's the way it makes it interesting: A lot of stories result in one single story. That's alike Quentin's Best, Pulp Fiction - one of my favorite stripe (apart from Star Wars and some others). Out of my view, there's only one bad, really bad scene in Attack of the Clones: The fighting between Yoda and Dooku. Yoda's action appears absolutely trashy. I guess George wants to stress the power of Dooku. But that's not necessary, after all Obi-Wan and Anakin have been beaten. Except on this, George and his team made a very good job to offer us a very good living movie. But furthermore, they present us not only a nice movie, but also...
2) An invitation for philosophical thoughts. Episode 2 answers the question of Good and Evil. Due to this movie, we are not good or bad by nature. It's our action which defines our personality. Anakin is a mirror of the human culture in real life. Formerly (in Episode 1) he was a lovely boy. He was ready to help everybody without a thought of reward. In Episode 2 the audience becomes witness of his changing to a self-centred and power-hungry character, because the power he's already having poisoned him. This could happen to all of us! In my view it's not a question of destination. Although Anakin was meant to be the one which will balance the power before he was born. He knows about this prophecy and decides to go this way anyway. I conclude from this, we all have a destination but it's our decision to follow it or not. That's another point which defines our human nature: The free will. Furthermore, there's a second message in this movie: We cannot fight against war by celebrating war. It's typical that the clone army first represents the protection for the sincere republic and in Episode 4 (maybe in Episode 3 already) it changes to the evil army fighting against the sincere system. I'm not a member of an organization like Green Peace. I just use the following example to stress the parallel of this message in the movie to our real life: The nuclear weapons, once released to destroy an enemy, will also destroy the sender, because the enemy will strike back with exactly the same weapons.
Episode 2 invites us to become like Amidala. She's strong and follows pure sincere principles. She's ready to sacrifice her life for letting remain the glory of the good. Furthermore, she's remaining true to herself.
May the Force be with all of us!