Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Every generation has a story.
Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers.
Wokeness: 60%
Overall Score: 60%
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COWBOY
Created: 12-23-2022
Milo
Not Terrible
This movie was a bit of a testing ground for the idea of Star Wars becoming a complete propaganda mill, and conduit of liberal ideas to the masses disguised as a movie. The two sequels to this movie go completely off the rails. This one only mildly.
Created: 01-06-2023
Pha-Q woke
Created: 01-17-2023
Ozy
Full blown lesbian kiss
Warning. Do not expose your kids to this movie, the whole story is built around a black african actor and a young courageous and beautiful actress that discovers her attractivity toward a female character in the movie until she french kisses her in the movie.
Created: 01-30-2023
DuskCreature4335
No LGBT+, Yet Still Promotes Feminism
Disregarding the above comment, no, this movie does not have a lesbian kiss, and it's not about an actress who discovers attractiveness to a female character in the movie until they kiss each other. I think the above comment may be referring to another movie because nothing like that happens here, though an African-American actor does play a lead character in this film.
No, the reason I'm declaring this movie as woke has to do with some other reasons. First, let's talk about Rey and her Mary Sue abilities. Even as far back as this movie alone, she:
1) Single-handedly beats up a group of men attacking her and BB-8 with nothing but her staff, not even needing Finn's help
2) Pilots the Millennium Falcon through a wrecked star destroyer and steers at sharp turns that I don't even remember Han Solo pulling off
3) Taps into Kylo's fears and using them against him and eventually pulling the lightsaber towards her in the climax, despite being untrained on how to use the Force
4) Doing a mind trick on a Stormtrooper despite not properly knowing how to do so
5) Beats Kylo in his own fight by giving him a scar on his face while she's using a lightsaber on her first try
And that's not even going at how they downgrade the male characters, starting with Finn and Kylo.
Finn is the one who's being led by Rey into the Millennium Falcon during the First Order's second attack on Jakku, and while Kylo was stated to be one of Luke's students and was trained by Snoke, he isn't able to resist Rey seeing into his fears and isn't able to pull his grandfather's lightsaber toward him. It would be far more sensible for Kylo to be beaten by Finn, a trained Stormtrooper with battle experience, than Rey, a scavenger who doesn't even know how to use the Force and isn't supposed to be given all her special abilities on a silver platter.
But the most infamous example of the male characters being downgraded in this movie is the character assassination of Han Solo.
Yes, Han was a smuggler by the time Luke, Obi-Wan, and Leia met him in A New Hope, but over time, he grew to become a much better person. Han intervened alongside Chewbacca at the last minute to stop the TIE Fighters that were attacking Luke, which was part of the reason why Luke was able to destroy the Death Star. In The Empire Strikes Back, Han was the one who went into the freezing blizzard to save Luke and bring him back, and when the blizzard was over, Han didn't abandon Luke to die. He stayed right there with him and called for help, even alerting a member of the Rebellion of Luke's presence. Throughout both The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, Han had the opportunity to escape and go back to smuggling, but he didn't. Instead, he continued fighting with the Rebellion against the Empire and even helped destroy the shield generator that was protecting the second Death Star.
The Force Awakens completely throws away all that character development Han had in the original trilogy in favor of making him a smuggler again, and the reason for this is that Han and Leia's son, Ben Solo, fell to the dark side of the Force, and therefore, Han went back to the thing he was the best at, which was smuggling. Han is even worse than he was when he was introduced as a smuggler back in A New Hope because now, he's cheated on deals with criminals such as the Guavian Death Gang and Kanjiklub by not giving them the money he promised them and gained a nasty reputation for his backstabbings.
There is no way that the same Han Solo who went through his own character growth in the original trilogy, from smuggler to Rebellion general, is the same Han Solo as the one in the sequel trilogy. Han would never do this. He would not return to smuggling. He would not cheat on deals with other criminals. He would've been with the Resistance and continued to fight for what was right regardless of how hard it would've been for him. He would've gone through thick and thin to help restore freedom to the galaxy from the First Order and he would've tried to find a way to bring back his and Leia's son even before Rey and Finn showed up in the story.
I heavily suspect that the reason why Lucasfilm decided to write Han this way for The Force Awakens is to make Rey look superior to him because she's supposed to be perfect and flawless. Kathleen Kennedy seems to believe that women should be viewed as better than men, which would also explain why Luke was character-assassinated in The Last Jedi and Anakin's character arc in the first six films was destroyed in The Rise of Skywalker because of Palpatine returning and Rey being the one to kill Palpatine.
The single best thing about The Force Awakens is Finn's character arc from being a Stormtrooper to a man who's willing to lay down his life to save someone else, but not even that is executed as well as it could have been because even though he and the other First Order Stormtroopers were kidnapped by the First Order from their homes and turned into their slave-soldiers, he does nothing to help them and even kills one of them himself.
Created: 05-03-2024
