The "Seinfeld" palliative is wearing off ...

Rating: 10/10 (3 December 2019)

And these reasons ultimately will be revealed to be Karmic.
(The kids born around '82, and raised on the thing, can't interpret right. They're used to it, so that's how they showed up again -- being blithe!)
For those of us, say, who were five in '77, and collected every action figure (mostly ... ) and had to deal with J.G. Ballard's contenting that the "fireworks display at the end teaches children death is no big deal" -- hey, J.G., you weren't *five*! The skeletons that were Luke's Aunt and Uncle -- just a brief glimpse -- ditto the severed arm in the cantina, the trash compactor, the thing with a needle that's going to torture Princess Leia ... that was *plenty*! (Even compared to "Rikki Tikki Tavi," a cartoon made in the '70s from a Kipling story, probably more up Mr. Ballard's alley as the stuff we have to indulge from youth, woh?)
But what we're talking about here, is, what Kubrick spoke of to Michael Herr as "that Jungian thing" -- the lightness and darkness in us all, how we can't know until *the last minute* how that surging in us will play out, or how we will expect that to play out in others. Shades of Anthony Burgess.
Like the best films, you really *can't tell* what's going to, penultimately, happen: People who think otherwise are sitting there blithely while the events play out because their sense of agency's been erased.
But there could be other reasons ...
(A great film! And, I must say -- shades of Martin Short -- doesn't it seem conspicuously tight, measured, and doled out, in a way that *doesn't* seem like a whole stylistic leap away from "The Force Awakens?" It's like you people don't know who Leigh Brackett, Lawrence Kasdan, Irwin Kershner, and freaking Steven Spielberg were in the case of the earlier movies ... hmm. You know?)
As Howard Hawks once said: "I want to know who's hand's behind the damn camera!"
Well, the guiding hand that is ... May the Force be With You!
(Always ... )