"You still want to kill me...." What does Kylo Ren mean?

Well she was shooting at him earlier in the woods. He sensed that same aggression in the interrogation.

 

I believe stuff got cut from their "introduction" on Takodana.

If you add this in, the latter reference during the interrogation makes more sense.

 

Well she did try to kill him in the Takodana forest. He only defended himself (again an inversion- the light side for defense, the dark side for attack) She fears him and her natural automatic survival response kicks in and she tries to eliminate the threat. She also tried to shoot first when she encountered the stormtroopers in the forest, but her weapon jammed. She turns her fear into agression. I think that is what makes Kylo so impressed and so 'fraternal' in that interrogation scene with her. He recognizes something of himself in her.

 

It is a peculiar line without the conversation from the book (although I'm grateful they cut a lot of the Kylo Ren dialogue from the book -- too freaking chatty! I thought he was more menacing with fewer lines).

So, when they cut the film, they left that line in for some reason. I'd hate for it to be sloppy editing or just so Rey had a reason to say, "That's what happens when you're hunted by a creature in a mask." The best reasoning I can come up with is that maybe he is surprised she's angry rather than afraid given his display of power.

 

I guess there is more subtext. He read her mind before- before they met in the Takodana forest. They are no strangers to each other. Physical distance is irrelevant.

From the novelization:

Rey " Where am I?"
Ren " does the physical location really matter so much?"

Assumed that a person being strong with the force can recall a vision, perhaps he wanted to test her abilities? Perhaps he thought she could recall that vision of him...?

 

Matt straight up sucks

 

He attacked her and her friends, stalked her through the woods like a killer from a Slasher film, paralyzed her and then starting painfully digging into her mind using The Force, threatened her with a lightsaber, knocked her out cold ad kidnapped her, and now she's woken up to find herself strapped to his creepy torture table in his creepy torture room, with him creepily sitting in the corner watching her. Oh and he insulted her friends to her face.

Also in the earlier forest scene, I got the sense that he was toying with her a bit. He was clearly intrigued by her ever sense that one FO officer told him about "the girl on Jakku." Like he could have frozen her right away, but instead he staked her for awhile, let her shoot at him so that he could show off/look cool, an the whole time she was terrified to point of being on the verge of tears. And again, he's toying with her during the interrogation scene as well. It becomes all the more apparent when you compare how he treats her in those scenes vs. how he treated Poe Dameron in the earlier ones.

Yeah, I'd probably want to kill him to if I were in her position. He probably sensed that, and when she asked about her friends whereabouts, gave her a "reassuring" answer "you'll be relieved to hear that I have no idea" in order to try and placate her, which didn't work.

 

She probably didn't get to have her muffin yet. I might want to kill someone if I missed breakfast too.

 

If Kylo really is convinced of his belief that he is on the good side of the fence than it also totally makes sense why he would be surprised that she still wants to kill him. He thinks he is the good guy after all with a mission with a certain urgency. He feels his own emotions in Rey's mind. Naturally he concludes that she is on his side. He recognizes himself in her mind. That is why he was somewhat caught off guard in the forest. He thought that they were so similar that when he told Rey "You need a teacher.I can teach you the ways of the force", she would be naturally inclined to comply. He knows how powerful she can become if she taps into the force from the emotional state he recognizes she's in.

 

Apart from all the other things that people have said earlier, a good and common interrogation technique is to try to calm the person interrogated. I think Kylo does that as well, all dark siders do that if you recall. Dooku tries to take Obi Wan on his side, Vader tries to take Luke on his side, Sidius does the same, they all try to show that the dark side is "good"...