This for all you early reylos, I totally thought we were going to have a happy ending. But a win is a win godammit and we better start savoring it . Even if we all lost the STAR WARS.
It happened, it was glorious and Anti’s can forever be bothered.
It is what it is, sometimes it’s not your cup of tea...
If you claim that you love enemies to lovers but have to redefine what enemies means to strip it of all violence and conflict, then you don't in fact love enemies to lovers and it's ok to admit that you don't like it and prefer a gentler setup of friends
I wrote twitter meta about the one good thing about this film (Adam Driver’s acting, the PURE character work he did with zero dialogue) because I finally figured out what he was talking about when he said he was using “mask work” with Kylo Ren. He wasn’t playing through a mask only when he wore the helmet, he was acting as if his very FACE was a stoic blank mask he was looking through. That’s why Kylo Ren as a character has such a specific feeling to him, and why the audience instantly responded to Ben Solo, who could show his emotions.
This character was always 100% a young boy hiding behind a mask that hid and disallowed every emotion except for his anger, the only emotion that men are allowed to feel. This character is an exploration of how toxic masculinity harms men. And what miracles can happen for men internally when they embrace emotionality and forgive themselves and use their energy to do good. (I’m crying about him again.)
Did Chris really just admit that the best bits of Ben’s characterization in TROS – literally some of the only highlights in the entire movie – came from nothing but Adam himself?? And meanwhile these clowns who get paid milions to write a script didn’t even bother to give him any lines in the second half of the film????