“they don’t infantalize her! what are you talking about?”
not only is the final image of her alone with BB-8 again (eerily like she began) but they’re depicting her sledding down the sand… like a child
they show her looking at children with longing - but apparently it’s not to mentor or raise her own kids, because we get NOTHING on her making her own legacy to the next generation
this is setting up something - potentially her wanting to make something for herself. but she’s not allowed that.
she’s the metaphorical daughter of luke and leia at the end - left in the pure child position rather than the position of being the authority, the one who shapes rather than the one who is shaped
so one can only imagine that the scene was setting up - her “want” to be an eternal child???? if it’s setting up her want to be an authority to the next generation it completely leaves that want unfulfilled - not even suggested at in any form
you can ship whatever you want - but the point remains: they didn’t let her come of age with ANYONE or become an adult in any fashion - bio or adoptive kids or symbolic kids to mentor
The Skywalker Saga films are supposed to be myths. And I am all absolutely for adapting myths to include non-trad family structures and life paths for women, but they didn’t give her any of those either.
They don’t let her self-actualize in any meaningful way - she doesn’t connect with other force sensitives like Jannah and potentially pass on what she knows, she doesn’t help the next generation and there’s no symbolism of her going forward. Her “found family” is all either dead or moving on as she becomes “increasingly isolated.”
And since we know from TFA and TLJ that Rey returns to a childlike mentality and regresses and does “self-consoling” child play when she’s desperately sad and pushing herself deep into denial, this ending is devastating in its subtext.
What kind of a horrid, sexist story is this for a heroine?
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