I'll admit I first became a Darth Vader super fan due to having a crush on Anakin. I first saw the Star Wars movies in January 2016.
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Episode 3 is so painful yet also so insightful with many beautiful scenes and many horrifying and heart-wrenching scenes.
For me, the most painful scene in Star Wars is when Darth Sidious talks to Anakin alone in the senate room and starts to get a hold on him: taking a virtuous quality in Anakin (a desire to see his loved ones live) and twisting it against him through falsehoods and seduction, using Anakin's pride and fear as a griphold.
My absolute favorite scene in Star Wars is the scene in the throne room where Luke, Darth Vader, and Darth Sidious fight each other. Even under his mask, I can see the interior battle happening within Anakin as he watches Darth Sidious torturing his son before turning against Sidious and saving Luke. A CHANGE IN HEART at that ultimate moment. So beautiful! To me one of the most beautiful moments in cinematic history!
I find Star Wars to be such an uplifting and insightful series. It's full of analogies and statements... truly symbolic.
What stands out to me the most in Star Wars is the beautiful relationship between Luke and the good and Luke and his father. Luke never actually gives up on his father. Even when things seem discouraging and hopeless, he continues to express his love for his father, to tell him there is still good in him, and to invite him to come to the good side.
What a beautiful example for each of us in our own lives and in every encounter we have with another or even with ourselves. We all have a little Luke and a little Darth Vader within us.
We must never lose hope in each other or stop loving each other. God doesn't! And we should never lose hope in ourselves or believe it's too late to turn to the good and try again. These are lessons that Star Wars can teach us. It's not just fantasy. It's filled with reality.
Even on our deathbeds, even today, even now -- regardless of how bad our sins are (just think of Anakin and the countless lives he took and weaknesses he gave into) -- we can turn to each other and say as Luke said, "I know there is still good in you," and turn to Our Lord (Whom we have hurt most of all) and hear Him say, "Come to me, and I will give you rest... I am the Divine Mercy."
What greater love or mercy is there than that? Let's love, respect, and live the Divine Mercy every day just as Luke and Our Lord did and turn back to the good like Anakin.
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