I guess what I am saying is the new Star Wars movie is more than just a movie, indeed the old Star Wars movies were as well. They touched something in all of us that connects with our deeply troubled childhoods and all the broken and bitter disappointments we feel toward our parents and our lives—when we sit in the theater watching a note for note recreation by JJ Abrams he is not looting our childhood but returning to us the false sense of hope we once held when a young band of plucky rebels stood up against authoritarian evil and toppled an empire the same way we too would stand up to our parents and say “Fuck you, I am studying poetry in college and there is nothing you can do about since you aren’t paying for it DAD! OH, I am still mad you for throwing away my Star Wars toys! HOW COULD YOU DO THAT? YOU DESTROYED MY CHILDHOOD ALL OVER AGAIN!”

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