In The Last Jedi, Rey and Kylo Ren get better acquainted through a shared Force connection. It begins with swapping snide remarks and sarcasm, but quickly blossoms into something fertile, friendly and, yes, even erotic.
So strong is their connection that they appear to be in the same space, as if they could reach out and touch. In one of the most striking shots of the movie, the camera is filled with Rey and Ren’s hands before cutting in closer, to their fingertips just millimeters apart. Fans, critics, commentators and even Mark Hamill himself have described this moment as a sex scene and it’s easy to see why. It’s loaded with sexual imagery, bathed in warm romantic light and sensually shot. The viewer can almost see how the lines of their fingerprints fit together like missing pieces of the same puzzle.
I adore this article from raisingarebel.com. Great parallels and amazing study of the way hands have been portrayed throughout Star Wars. I high five this!
First this:
The example of Vader is an especially heartbreaking one. Re-watching the
prequel trilogy and paying particular attention to Anakin’s hands
yields some impressive insight into his character. There’s so many
subtle touches and tremors, be that gently stroking Padmé’s bared skin,
keeping them under his cloak and out of sight, or grinding grains of
sand between his fingers. We know that Anakin doesn’t like the feeling
of sand, so as well as revealing the contempt he holds for his home
world, it shows how deeply he feels, both emotionally and physically.
So well observed that in losing both hands, Anakin has lost all connection with life and love. At the same time than Padmé died. So every physical connection has been severed from him. He can now just feel through the Force. Touch has become an abstraction. Even more interesting, I am going to add, since Anakin, to me, is pretty much defined by his hands in PM. The boy gets attention because he is skilled with his hands. He is a mechanic. He pilots. Using his hands is an intrinsic part of himself. After the traumatic event with his mother and his first brush with the Dark Side in AOTC, what does he do?
He gets his hand busy. He goes back to tinkering because that is his comfort zone. Using his hands is what used to bring him joy and a sense of freedom. So losing his hands is really losing his identity. I am no surprised that they both disappear when he becomes Vader.
It is also fascinating, as the article points out, that THE definining moment when Luke fully identifies with his father, and is able to feel love and empathy in a way that prevents him to fall in the dark side (and become a new Vader) is when comparing his artificial hand with his father’s severed hand (again). “
He pauses, contemplates his own mechanical limb and sees his whole
future before him. By staring into the depths of the abyss and seeing
himself reflected, Luke was able to turn from following the same path.
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And finally, this very cool part:
So, hands have always held significance in the Star Wars saga, but this was taken a step further in ‘Wolves and a Door’, the twelfth episode of the final series of Rebels.
In an attempt to get into the Jedi temple on Lothal, Ezra and Sabine
are confronted by a beautiful mural of the Father, Son and Daughter from
the Mortis arc of The Clone Wars. With more than a little help
from Sabine, Ezra realises that hands are the key to opening the
doorway. Touching hands is literally a language – perhaps the purest,
most basic and universal language here on earth and in a galaxy far, far
away.
Hands and fate have always been intertwined somehow. By touching hands, Rey and Kylo are able to read each other’s lives. Hands are the key to something important in Star Wars. I also want to contribute to this great article by including these important hand moments:
The dying parent touch
Another erotic hand moment that was overlooked:
The Creepy Touch (and the fact that both Snoke and Palpatine only use their hands to strike)
And the honorable mention of Rose biting Hux’s hand in the deleted scene from TLJ (sorry, the pictures were too crappy).
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