Episode IV : a new jihadist (screen) (vhs) (dad)

Rating: 10/10 (26 August 2017)

It was long, long ago that I haven't watched the classic trilogy while it was indeed key movies in my childhood and teens. What i learn from them, it's that End doesn't mean it's over as the stories keep on coming in a new way. Here my dad DVDs are the Special edition while my VHS are the simple blue box set. The new SFX are less extraordinary than the cleaning of the picture with bright and sharp colors and the Lucas commentary. As the excellent book Secret History of SW tells you, we can catch Lucas telling lies : here it's like he told us that in 1977, everything was fixed and planned while in fact it was making V that he discovered that Vader = Anakin and making VI that Luke + Leia = twins ! Visually and emotionally, it's true still today that the movie is a benchmark in filmmaking and SciFi. Even if the budget was small, the production team had the highest inspiration and talent (respect for Ralph MacQuarrie !). Harrison, Mark and Carrie are really exceptional in their basic parts and make easily forget how the plot is easy (and a bit boring from the moment Falcon leaves the dark star !).
As true classics, the movie offers as well endless lectures, interpretation and the one told in my title is not from me but comes from fans in an article from Decider : in a way, nobody can push away the idea that Luke fate has parallels with radicalization : in this episode, we have the lone young man, without family of friends, recruited by old wise, explaining world by a religion (the Force) and ending up doing a cheap suicide mission against fully armed government (dark star attack) while praying (may the force be with you)Â… So it's interesting to see how can everything can be twisted and i really like the irony that the citizens of the biggest country that hunts rebels all over the world happen to praise movies in which the rebels win !