KYLO REN Y EL LADO OSCURO DE LOS NERDS

Hoy cambiamos de tercio:

La razón por la que solo he reproducido artículos críticos con El Despertar de la Fuerza es por que NO HE LEÍDO NADA INTELIGENTE en los que intentan defenderla: Que si con Lucas estábamos peor, que si es una Star Wars para una nueva generación, que si me sentí como un niño... Todo eso coronado por el ubicuo, indiscutible y DEFENSIVO: "Pues yo me lo pasé muy bien".


Hasta ahora.

Este artículo se centra en analizar el indudable atractivo que Kylo Ren (¿Ner?) tiene para toda una generación de fans de Star Wars y es la lectura más práctica que he leído de lo que la película SIGNIFICA para los espectadores, más allá del ser el episodio entre el VI y el VIII.

Making him a guy who idolizes Vader but constantly freaks out because he sucks compared to Vader is a clever way of continuing the central trilogy without cloning it (or worse still, someone from it). 

But this characterization of Kylo Ren is even more brilliant as a piece of philosophy that advances the concept of the Force and its Light and Dark Sides, a concept that has probably been the most important contribution to pop-culture ethics in living memory.

The presentation of Kylo Ren as a whiny, insecure little shit is brilliant because, frankly, whiny insecure little shits are usually the people who actually do become evil in real life.

Nerds want a Star Wars bad guy to be a stone-cold badass like Darth Vader because this lets them off the hook for self-examination, as nerds are absolutely nothing like Darth Vader.

Kylo Ren, however, is a nerd: he acts like one, he has the backstory of one, and when he takes his helmet off, he even looks like one.

Do not underestimate the importance of this, or how necessary it was for this to happen right now.

This is a movie that knew it was destined to be for nerds; an entry in a film series around which many nerds’ lives straight-up revolve.

And it had the courage to slap those nerds in the face. Through this characterization of Kylo Ren, The Force Awakens is saying “having a bad childhood and being insecure and feeling inferior doesn't automatically make you the good guy, and it doesn't mean these movies belong to you – in fact, there's a good chance that clinging to this identity is making you the bad guy.”