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Originally Posted by Tribal Warfare
If anything thus really really bugged me, because the journey to be great shouldn't be attained with the simplicity that Rey achieved it.
The age old term " if it was easy everyone be doing it"
Rey smashed the idea that to be excellent in a craft you have to work hard and earn it. The mystique and regard of being a Jedi is lost on the shortcut that Rian Johnson created with Rey's character arc.
I had to interject on this statement, because as a Martial Artists mind over matter is a major tenet. It's a slap in the face to the audience by conveying that anyone who has the capability will be great without effort.
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I get where you're coming from, but from my perspective it didn't even matter.
For me, I've given everything I had to sports in my younger years only to have my ass handed to me by more talented people with far less work ethic far too many times to ever truly buy into motivational poster stuff. Please don't take that as an insult to the tenant of your study. I merely mean that given my lack of natural ability, the ideas of "if you can believe it, you can achieve it", "95% mental 5% physical", "you can do anything you put your mind to" kind of thing. I realize those types of things are materially different than mind over matter, and again, I don't intend any offense to your studies.
Beyond that though, that's not the story. Luke's journey was to
become a Jedi so he could become a hero. However, Jedi's have failed spectacularly over the course of time so
being a Jedi isn't necessarily the path to success. Rey becoming
herself is the story and her path to success. Luke failed because his decisions were driven by the ideas of what a Jedi would do. Rey has to become herself and do what is right against her own moral matrix as opposed to a conceived idea of a hero.
Is it likely that she could become as proficient as she is without mental training? I don't know - I'm not a combat guy, but I get the overall picture of what the movie is trying to say and it really resonates with me.