Then he reaches out to caress his son's cheek, which was his final gesture before falling dead into the abyss in the earlier film. We only know what they are by the negative space around them, the silence of the boy who wants to say them, and the response of the man who hears what is unsaid. " Ben says, but can't say the next three words. Han tells him he can, and then the most powerful line in The Rise of Skywalker is the one that goes unspoken. This time, he isn't sure he can reject and fight the evil he helped perpetuate. But what he actually meant was he didn't know if he'd have the strength to strike down his father and fully commit to the Dark Side. "I know what I have to do, but I don't know if I have the strength to do it." In The Force Awakens, this was a feint - meant to make the audience think Kylo Ren was crumbling, and maybe he was. "But what she stood for, what she fought for, that's not gone. "Come home," Han says, another echo of what he said long ago. He is replaying the memory of the murder, but amending it with a different outcome. "You're just a memory," the young man says. He can't undo the past, but the exchange between him and his father plays out as a mirror of their earlier deadly encounter, this time with a different outcome. So Abrams and co-screenwriter Chris Terrio ( Argo) gave Ben Solo a chance to replay what he did wrong. She perceived the small light in the darkness, but that light, that renewed sense of decency and goodness, was smothered beneath the crush of guilt. Leia did the same for her son in The Rise of Skywalker. " It was important to him that she saw it. He asked Luke to tell Leia there was goodness in him when there appeared to be none. George Lucas had a similar moment between father and son when Luke Skywalker pried the mask off Darth Vader and allowed his father to see him "with my own eyes." In that case, it was the father apologizing to his son, thanking him for "saving" him, even as he died. It will strike a nerve with anyone who grew up idolizing Solo from the original trilogy, and mourned this fictional character like he was someone real. The same one Ben knew, too.Īmid the divisive reaction to The Rise of Skywalker, and the overwhelmingly negative reviews, this scene is still bound to connect with moviegoers of any age, any kid who has ever battled with a parent and lashed out with a cruel word to hurt them. Han Solo stands there, a somewhat scruffier Nerf-herder, but still the same old scoundrel we knew. ("See you around, kid.") But the camera swings around and we see another gravel-voiced old timer. At first, it sounds a little like Mark Hamill, who used that nickname for Kylo in The Last Jedi.
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