Becca Benjamin brings us another thoughtful article looking at Rey over at Cantina Cast.
If you had a chance to tune in to The Cantina Cast’s Roundtable of The Force Awakens, then you heard me give my two credits on the interrogation scene between Rey and Kylo Ren. It’s a very dark and an uncomfortably intimate moment – something Star Wars has never attempted before. Yet, there is a remarkable parallel happening in these few minutes and it’s superbly done.
You see, we’ve already witnessed a young woman resist the unnatural forces of the dark side and fight back, against the intrusion of having her thoughts extracted against her will. Leia. Oddly enough, Darth Vader never questioned if she was strong in the force, but he was indeed baffled by her restraint. It wasn’t until he had the millennium falcon searched that he sensed an all too familiar presence that made him question the force. Is this a fluke between trilogies? Honestly, I think not. This is exactly what we are meant to see, to connect, because that is Star Wars — a continuation of cyclical themes throughout the generations.
