A Violation of Meaningful Archetypes and Diversity

Rating: 1/10 (29 December 2017)

A violation of meaningful archetypes, the need for wisdom of the past, and teachers. In the internal struggle against fear and failure, a suffering hero re-emerges to transcend to nothingness. The new hero needs no guidance nor backstory. That isn't celebration of gender or diversity but a crude devaluing of femininity to a fantastical, utopian idealization and white males to power-hungry, fearful mongrels. This is worse than the objectification of women.
Luke 1980: "I see good in you!" Luke 2017: "I must purge the evil in you!"
He spends years in purgatory (a shamanic/Christ/hero idea) but when he re-emerges he doesn't lead (Mace Windu), challenge (Qui-Gon), teach (Yoda), transcend (Obi-wan), or any of it - he just dies after performing the most powerful act yet seen just to delay the escape of 40 people. A weak symbol of white male irrelevance passing away without the transfer of responsibility. A pitiful end.
On to diversity. Masculinity, notably white men, is portrayed as bad, incompetent, or weak in the film. This is the opposite of true diversity and modern diversity interventions and denies Luke's original spirit or the spirit of the Benevolent King. The best they do with hero is that women already encapsulate the fullness of the deeper meaning of religion, and that any pull impotent evil has is mere curiosity. She is perfect because well, she just IS. She doesn't require teaching or guidance. That's a false, utopian archetype and a betrayal of both genders.
That's what this film is - a betrayal of archetypes, deep subconscious truths, including mother nature (the devouring mother is unrepresented) and hierarchy (the benevolent father is unrepresented). That leaves us with evil white tyrants and unequivocally good, incorruptible women.
The Hero archetype is only present in Finn, who is on a path to overthrow his former oppressor (this is the only story path which feels correct), but then they cut that from the next film.
What a letdown to the story that shaped my childhood.