With “The Last Jedi,” Star Wars Has Chosen A Side In The Class War

While many fans are still debating the latest Star Wars movie, many political aspects of "The Last Jedi" have largely been ignored.

Nevertheless, the film clearly has chosen a side in class war.

Events on the planet of Canto Bight were symbolic for that, as described in this article:

“Only one business in the galaxy can get you this rich,” Rose — a new character in “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” a mechanic on the Rebel flagship — explains to returning hero Finn as they look around the beachfront resort planet, “selling weapons to the First Order.” She goes on to tell her family’s history: forced to work on a First Order mining colony before it was bled out and blitzed for weapons testing. After being imprisoned on Canto Bight for parking their spaceship on a private beach, our heroes escape — in part — by corralling Dickensian child laborers to release a pack of abused extraterrestrial racehorses that then crash through the casino like Jesus cleansing the temple of money lenders."

In Star Wars movies, good and evil are often too obvious. Also in this film, it is very clear that the guys from the First Order are the bad ones while the rebellion is good. 

Nevertheless, it is – like politics in the real world – not that one-sided. 

Personally and as a big Star Wars fan, I did not like the movie for different reasons. However, I noticed that, like in last year's "Rogue One", the heroes of these movies were not elite people (like the Jedi used to be) but the proletariat. 

Or as the author describes them: "Working stiffs who’ve gotten the short shrift throughout the franchise."