I’m sure you’ve heard it said that art resembles life, or something like that. Well, it didn’t take very long for people to draw comparisons between Star Wars, and Iraq Wars. And while George Lucas wrote the movie during the Viet Nam war era, he mentions that similarities could be applied to today’s war. I’m sure that George Lucas was surprised when Reagan referred to the anti-ballistic missile system as the “Star Wars” defense system.
Could this be somewhat of the Catch 22 of the 2000’s? Catch 22 was made into a film, released in 1970, that followed the life of a WWII pilot who just wanted to go home, but couldn’t because of the dreaded Catch 22.
While Catch 22 poked fun at the military’s “circular logic”. The bigger questions are about who runs these wars? But at the end of the day, the people who watch a war movie and don’t realize that War movies are supposed to leave you thinking about how they affect the individuals involved have missed something. They should consider that the men and women who enter into battle in defense of their country are individuals with hopes and dreams and families. War movies generally show one side as good and one side as bad. Yet plainly, as shown in the current Star Wars movie, who is good and who is bad is a matter of perception.
Hope you don’t boycott Star Wars because someone else might have read something into the movie that you don’t agree with. After all, it is a movie, and a good one at that.