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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Then in the sequel, the audience can no longer tell who is good and who is bad and slowly realize that the main cast who are neither good or bad and have all done horrible things are at the heart of the conflict while every one around them die needless deaths in order to continually drive the story into the next sequel.

[–] Skua@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's more or less the default throughout history. The Nazis had to be a deeply horrifying kind of evil to make WWII have a clear good side that contained most of the world's biggest colonial empires

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

Then the sequel to that was basically Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith ..... where we find out that the enemy we've been fighting is not a nation, or a military but a religious/ideological movement based on faith, wealth and historic power.

In our actual history, it's called fascism, a belief that power and wealth is entitled to only those who take it by force and more often that not, the movement is directly tied to certain groups, races or religions.

Art (if you can call the Star Wars movie franchise art) certainly does reflect life.