SPECULATION [Theory] Rey is the good in Vader.

Not buying it. I'm sorry, but I'm not buying this one bit. If I'm supposed to believe that Rey is basically the epitome of goodness and sunshine, then I might as well dismiss her as nothing more than a badly written, one-note character. So far, her characterization has not been that impressive to me. Then again, I can say the same about the other Sequel Trilogy characters. I don't think Lucasfilm has done a good job in handling any of them.

 

I read through this thread and your interpretation is brilliant. Follow me on this: a lot of people (perhaps the greater majority) look at a movie and all they see is the surface. They view movies as a kind of, pseudo-documentary. What their eyes see is all that there is to process. Think of it like, meeting a person, and all that you see is the surface of the person. Their gender, their skin color, their physical attractiveness, all of the visible qualities. Now if that is all that you see, you completely miss the real person, the, invisible depth behind the exterior. The inner being, as it were. The proverbial spirit.

So what you're doing in this thread is looking at the exterior, and you're perceiving beyond the surface to connect with the underlying spirit. In other words, you're viewing the surface as though it is a visible expression of the invisible idea, a metaphor expressed visually. And I would propose that this is what all movies and stories really are. They are metaphors. Spirit couched in soul; invisible expressed in visible. It's like Luke says to Rey in episode 8, "What do you see?" and Rey replies as though she is talking about what she sees visibly "Light and darkness" (as if Rey is commenting on the 'light and shadow' which goes into the filmmaking itself) and Luke replies "It's so much bigger than that". I've felt the same way when people speak of movies, and they can only see the visible surface, yet, it's so much bigger than that.

I think that you were expecting the metaphor (that idea which you perceive in episode 7) to suddenly be made the surface in episode 8 (in other words, expecting it to suddenly be revealed story-wise that 'you are watching a metaphor') but that isn't necessary for your "theory" to be significant, because your "theory" is not a "theory" at all. It is an interpretation. It is your mind peircing the proverbial veil of the story's surface, to comprehend what lies beyond: to the inner truth of the visible, the metaphor at the heart of the words; the very spirit.

The idea here is that you say "We are in the psyche of Anakin" but what if, Anakin is also a metaphor? And we are not in the psyche of Anakin, but we are in the psyche of man? Stories and movies come from the psyche of man. The heart and mind of man, is where these "stories" really take place. Movies are outward expressions of what is going on inside of man. These characters are personifications of spiritual things. By spiritual I am meaning, abstract. Belonging to the realm of the immaterial. Invisible. Idea.

Do you understand what I'm saying? You looked at episode 7 and you saw beyond the surface which is something rarely done by people these days. But I would ask, look at episode 8. What do you see?

 

I would agree with this statement.