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Part 5: Theme – Failure

This leads us into the overarching theme: failure is a part of life. So learn from it.

People in Last Jedi fail constantly, but to use an old phrase, that’s a feature, not a bug. Luke failed to train Kylo Ren, and let his fear get the best of him. Rey's plan to reach and turn Kylo Ren to the light side is a huge failure. Poe's mutiny gets thousands killed. Finn's execution of Poe's plan and attempted heroic sacrifice are both colossal failures. Snoke fails to keep his spine in one piece.

But Yoda's lesson about failure is a deeply important lesson for a blockbuster film to teach. It's okay to fail, as long as you learn from it. It's why Rey keeps the Jedi texts, although the film repeatedly tells us how awful the Jedi actually were at accomplishing anything. She's not restarting the Jedi religion from the books, but she understands the failures of the past while moving forward in a new way.

Failure teaches us new things. It teaches us what we've done wrong, how to do things better, and how to succeed the next time around. That is an insanely adult lesson for any movie to dole out, and even moreso for a Star Wars film.