In Andor, from Disney+, the rebellion against the Empire is still a fleeting hope. One also so blurred and improbable as to be made up of chaotic groups and without a visible head. That, at least, is Cassian’s deduction once he accepted Luthen Rael’s help.
For the man without a past played by Diego Luna, the mere possibility of an ideal is improbable. “There is nothing to fight for,” he says, enraged and bewildered. “Maybe not, but even so, it is necessary to continue resisting,” insists his singular accomplice.
The fourth chapter of the Disney + series shows again that Andor is the most adult and complex story of the current Star Wars universe. Once he escaped from Ferrix and become a circumstantial ally of The Rebellion, Cassian’s options are few.
They all accept them with cynicism. Even the unlikely plan to stop a bureaucratic line of the totalitarian regime, with a confused purpose. But in the argument, the idea about good and evil is not yet fully defined. In fact, the most intriguing point of the Tony Gilroy production it is the feeling that all history is on the brink of the abyss.
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The darkest mysteries of a galaxy far, far away
Cassian moves in the limits of the moral. Expatriate again, isolated, now persecuted as if by the long fist of power, must become a mercenary unwillingly. The character is not a hero or pretends to be.
In reality, he is a survivor who lost everything he owned on more than one occasion for no other reason than violence. for the script, Cassian is the incarnation of the inhabitants of the Galaxy that the Empire ignores.. Those who try to control based on brutality without actually achieving it.
But the series is not satisfied with just delving into the marginal and excluded condition of Cassian. At the other extreme, the character of Luthen Rael crosses the legal limit despite the danger and risk that her decisions entail. The Rebellion begins to take shape as something more than a shock group. So Rael is the bridge between both versions of the opposition to the Empire.
Actor Stellan Skarsgård brings to his performance a deep ambiguity. In one facet of him, he is a man who can throw bombs and take on a full squad of Imperial Guardsmen and come out unscathed. An elusive figure of gray intentions who surprises with his skill and sophisticated cruelty.
On Coruscant, power begins to pull its strange strings of influence
But Luthen is also his most disconcerting version. A wealthy man from Coruscant who was able to trade art pieces with a smirk. It is a voice that whispers, capable of keeping and trafficking in secrets. An escape route that is still in personal danger for unknown reasons.
In the same way as the rest of the plot, the intentions and the true motivations of its characters are dense brushstrokes of humanity. Luthen carefully disguises herself to face her other duty to The Rebellion. Once on Coruscant she is just a friendly face. A sophisticated mask that hides a completely unexpected route to the subversive.
Questions are unavoidable Andor. Why is Rael risking his position, future and even his physical integrity for The Rebellion? Cassian barely caught a glimpse of one of their faces. But the brightest — and most inexplicable — is the one known to Senator Mon Mothma. For the important political figure of the Empire, Luthen is a man who greets you at the entrance of an elegant shop in the Capital of the Empire. Him too, the only man he can trust.
A look at the darkness and the plots that are announced in Andor
Mon Mothma is a classic character in the Star Wars saga, in which his role grew in importance from a fleeting appearance. But it was precisely the senator, who gave rise to the film rogue one. His phrase in Episode VI Return of the Jediit became iconic.
She is the one who remembers the cost in lives of obtaining the plans for the Death Star. So her central appearance in Andor is more than just a plot necessity. It’s also a strange form of symmetry that allows Cassian Andor’s story to be understood in all its painful expanse.
In fact, his appearance in the fourth chapter of the series is elegant and opens the possibility of exploring the motivations that move the mysterious figure. For the first time, hehe senator is more than just a concerned face or a sensible voice in the midst of fear. The camera follows the character through her life and with it, shows the rigors of opposing power from the very center of it. His encounter with Luthen is disturbing for the mere fact of making clear the apparatus of oppression of the Empire. But beyond that, the tension of a system built to monitor and turn the population into hostages.
The senator is, even despite her luxurious life and her political relevance. As well as Los Rebeldes planning the most reckless attack on one of the regime’s financial distribution lines in an open field. Disney+’s Andor is full of subtle contradictions.
So while Mon Mothma receives information and secures her commitment, Cassian tries to understand the motivations behind the resistance. One and the other understand power differently, but both are united by the same need to shake the lines of a greater horror.
Andor, a painful look at the unnamed stories of Star Wars
In Andor, The Empire is everywhere. It is an omnipresent and lurking presence. For the senator, who smiles as she tries to escape surveillance, her duty involves facing the limits of her own life as well.
At the other extreme, Cassian assumes that his future may have put aside the uncertainty of just going from one place to another, regretful and anonymous. Luna’s character carries on her shoulders the identity of a very rare type of figure in Star Wars. Beyond the battles, the chases and the friendly astonishment, there are the victims. Those who survived the siege of battles that no one remembers.
In its fourth chapter, Andor tells the setting of a new kind of showdown in a galaxy far, far away. The one that implies fear, pain and suffering, as part of something more essential and human. Cassian, who is not yet a hero and does not want to be, begins its transit to discover the value of an ideal. Luthen, fulfilling a mysterious duty, walks a complicated line of risk. Mon Mothma, roams an opulent world that borders on the very root of the Empire’s cannibal power.
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Among all, a scenario, a future, a clash is drawn. Without a doubt, a scene that Andor he draws with a careful and well-constructed vision of his weight as history. Perhaps, its greatest value as a production destined to deepen an increasingly wide and mature universe.