What a Drama!

Rating: 9/10 (23 May 2005)

** SOME SPOILERS AHEAD **
So far, everything come to an end. Not really an end. What a movie, what a epic story, what a tragedy!
First the movie. Quite a lot of action. It starts by an incredible space action. Then Obi Wan, again, moves to an other planet where is hidden the general grievous, etc... Many impressive things but the truth is elsewhere.
The real plot lies in Coruscant. There the tragedy of Anakin continues. Left alone, obi wan gone, the young Jedi is influenced by chancellor Palpatine.
More, Anakin is betrayed by its own vision of future, of a death, the death of Padme when giving birth. The fear of loosing her love will conduct young Anakin to the dark side of the force, helped in that by a suddenly evil chancellor. Indeed the chancellor was only waiting for THE good moment, the weakness of the Jedi council too much involved in fighting everywhere in the galaxy. This is the plot of palpatine.
At the heart of the plot, Anakin is the hero of this last movie. We almost forgive him what he is getting. Remember the life of that guy : no father, slave when child, a mother slave that dies into his arms years after having left her. Why didn't the Jedi free her when he was a young boy? MAJOR Mistake!!!
In a sense, the Jedi council failed years before, not in the present tiles. They were unable to make him a man; they even suited chancellor needs when making anakin some kind of a spy to him. That poor guy was alone all his life, not really helped in that by the Jedi, and when he learns he will become a father and can build a family, everything collapse, he cannot say anything to his master because of the Jedi order.
Even famous Jedi become unfaithful. Mace Windu will try to kill chancellor with no trial, although anakin would not. MAJOR MISTAKE.
It is true that the Jedi made mistakes. It is true that Obi Wan should have been there with his Padawan when required. Again one other mistake from the Jedi council : Why sending Obi Wan so far? The Jedi, that can even read into hearts, left Anakin alone.
Yoda and the Jedi council failed. Wiseness failed in the crucial moment. Really i would not rely on the Jedi council!!!
Actually the revenge of the Sith could be renamed : the failure of the Jedi council, or the tragedy of Anakin, etc...
I feel really sad for Anakin. He his a toy. Too young he was for such sensitive missions. Too alone he was left by a master that didn't understand what would happen. Anakin portrayed what can happen to any of our youth.
When Anakin, renamed in Darth Vador, cries & express his suffer about Padme death, the greatest moment of the movie and even of the both trilogy, he has never been so human. Former Love of Padme become a terrible hate of those who separated him from his family. In a sense, the emperor becomes his new family. Not the good one! Sadness makes him a slave of the emperor, not the dark side i would say. Love became Hate. Love and Hate (remember the night of the hunter) are the two faces of the same coin. He ask for revenge. But he is not the emperor puppet. More, he thinks that one day he can rule the galaxy. The emperor is also for him, now, a mean for power.
Really, the poor Anakin lives a tragedy and that film is the tragedy of Anakin, the third act, not the final one. A tragedy because everything seems to be written by advance (for sure we knew what would happen). Anakin is a toy, the chancellor toy and the Jedi council toy. They both played with him, but the chancellor was a better player. Yoda & Windu wiseness is useless here. They are also blind of so many things, i really wonder why!!! They are Jedi at least! they should have prevented such a drama! Or, at least, they should have isolated young Anakin & his wife very deep into the galaxy.
Anakin will not only suffer in his heart, for this lost love, in his mind, because of his betrayal asked by both parties, the Jedi council & chancellor, but also into his body. Like an descent to hell, he will literally burn on the lava planet. I wonder if, after such a treatment, i would not become also a monster...
Anakin suffer so much that when he fits into his new Vador suit, helping him to survive, he cries like...
Well, Anakin drama is really something terrible and it is with a great emotion that the movie ended for me. An emotion that i didn't encounter in previous movies.
In the first trilogy, everybody hated Vador; Finally, Lucas make us love that guy!!! Redemption is possible for everyone, even us!
Thank you mister Lucas for these great demonstration. I loved that movie. Also a lesson for life.