The Hollow Shell at the End of Nostalgia: On the End of the Star Wars Saga (The Nostalgia Trap, Part 7)

Star Wars was always going to be one of the cultural artifacts we touch upon in the “nostalgia trap” series. It’s an active cultural institution, and one that it looked like you could set your watch by fairly recently – the future of Star Wars on film is, of course, up in the air after Solo, which was a perfectly fine movie released just a month after an Avengers movie, and thus did poorly. But Lucasfilm has only ever done Nostalgia pieces. Getting angry at Star Wars for nostalgia is like getting angry at Star Trek for being utopian.

Analysis, Commentary, The Nostalgia Trap, Written by: Cameron, FilmCameron SummersJanuary 6, 2020Star Wars, The Rise of Skywalker, J.J. Abrams, The Last Jedi, Rian Johnson, movie criticism, Nostalgia, The Nostalgia Trap, postmodernism, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Zdzisław Beksiński, Taika WaititiComment