Did the movie answer the question, "Why you?"

We don't have any answers in this movie except the drunk junk dealers who sold their daughter for booze.

 

Honestly, I don't think it's an important question. Rey and Luke are connected though the force. It had to be Rey.

 

I still think he knows she is Palpatine's grand daughter but doesn't want to tell her.

That's why he is so standoffish with her.

It's the unexpected thing to do for JJ. Maybe that's why she "went straight for the dark side" like he says.

 

When does he say "Why you?". He does say "Who are you?" and "Why are YOU here?"

This is answered except people don't like the answer so are rejecting it in denial. The force called to a young girl that was abandoned on a junk planet. Through her strength and sheer will, she managed a life on Jakku. The force was always inside her. Maybe that scared her parents so they trader her. Who knows. The point is, Rey should be a nothing, but instead she trained herself to fly, learned how to wield a staff, and kept herself humble all in the name of hope.

It's explained why in the film. She thought it would show her who her parents were. The one question that she must have answered in order to move on. You'd do it too. Despite the dark power, she never turned her heart. Geez this isn't complicated people.

 

"Why you?"

In the wider sense of the question, asking why Rey was chosen by the force? To me it matters because it doesn't matter.
If Rey is indeed a nobody, its a lot of what the film was about itself, that is that everyone and anyone is and can be special.
This is echoed again with the final scene of broomstickboy.

More literally? Perhaps Rey is the perfect canvas. Light and dark, the balance, or you could say the grey
I mean Anakin Skywalker, the chosen one, was neither all light or all dark, and spent time batting for both teams if you will
Beyond just the balance, perhaps there is something especially special about Rey?

I mean why was Steve Rogers chosen to undergo the super serum procedure?
Not an accurate comparison i acknowledge, but to me its the same principle.

 

LUKE: Who are you?

REY: I know this place.

LUKE: Built a thousand generations ago to keep these. The original Jedi texts. Just like me, they're the last of the Jedi religion. You've seen this place. You've seen this island.

REY: (WHISPERING) Only in dreams.

LUKE: Who are you?

REY: The Resistance sent me.

LUKE: They sent you? What's special about you? Where are you from?

REY: Nowhere.

LUKE: No one's from nowhere.

REY: Jakku.

LUKE: All right, that is pretty much nowhere. Why are you here, Rey, from nowhere?

REY: The Resistance sent me. We need your help. The First Order's become unstoppable.

LUKE: Why are you here?

REY: Something inside me has always been there. But now it's awake. And I'm afraid. I don't know what it is or what to do with it. And I need help.

LUKE: You need a teacher... I can't teach you.

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I think this is a very straight-forward question.

She arrives on the island to ask him to help the resistance. The resistance could have sent anybody if the only reason she was there was to simply ask for help. When she heads straight for the force tree he understands that she is force sensitive or at least suspects it. When he asks her what specifically is special about her, he is just asking to confirm his suspicions and his assumption. He later goes on to answer his own question - he tells us that she is there to find a teacher.

 

I guess we can close out this thread.

 

Yes. The answer is "Why not her?"

 

Yes, Snoke explains it. “Darkness rises...and light to meet it”.

 

this. very clearly and plainly this.

 

For me, it's kind of a fourth wall break considering how underwritten of a protagonist she manages to be so that was amusing. Given all the trite meta narrative that surrounds this trilogy, I just thought it was inadvertently self-aware at this point.