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The following containsmajor plot spoilersforStar Wars:The Force Awakens.Heres our usual Jedi squirrel as a reminder.
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How fitting, then, that the weight of history also hangs heavily overThe Force Awakensvillains.
Consider Kylo Ren, brilliantly played by Adam Driver.
Where Vader was all cool, efficient resolve, Ren is more hormonal teenager.
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From this point on, it becomes increasingly clear that Kylo Ren isnt your typical movie villain.
Hes impulsive, angry, even wounded.
Rens self-built lightsaber gives a further insight into his troubled state of mind.
Its the weapon of a character with power but lacking the maturity or grounding to fully control it.
Kylo Rens character fits withThe Force Awakenstheme about a new generation reacting to the events of the last.
No one said that growing up and facing your destiny was easy.
Its worth sparing a thought, too, for General Hux, brilliantly played by Domhnall Gleeson.
In fact, hes more of a petty middle-manager a kind of space-faring David Brent.
ByThe Force Awakensend, its central characters have chosen their paths.
Reys jetted off in the Millennium Falcon to meet Luke Skywalker.
Finn has opted to stay and fight with the Resistance.
Kylo Rens fate, meanwhile, still hangs in the balance.
Or does that glimmer of goodness still linger within him somewhere?
Or, put even more simply: choose your role models carefully, kids.
