Finn's style in The Rise of Skywalker and Its Significance

[ljwrites]

This may seem like a small detail, but I'm excited and emotional about the fact that Finn's hair is longer in TROS and he is otherwise developing his own distinctive style. It shows how he is growing out of the long shadow of the First Order's brainwashing and is becoming his own person, and implies that the Stormtrooper program itself--indeed, all attempts to turn humans into unthinking machines--is ultimately a failure. I find that to be a tremendously positive and life-affirming message.

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