Yes, it's the push-pull freedom/dead weight of belonging/legacy.
Finn's whole identity was stolen, and he will probably never know who he once was. He is free to choose who to be, but he is also all on his own to begin with, making a choice all of his own.
Rey was abandoned (as far as we know), and she knows the hopelessness of having no future. (The scene where she cleans the day's loot and looks up to see the old woman across from her, her future made flesh, is one of my favourite scenes in the whole story.)
Ben Solo was always special, the son of heroes, the grandson of the most evil man in the universe, gifted and talented and probably painfully suggestible. One of the reasons I love the Emo Kylo Ren Twitter feed so much, is that - although very silly - it's not inaccurate in the look into his mind. The father who is silly and jovial, where Ben would be serious and sensitive, the mother who is busy laying the foundations of a rebellion, loving, but probably busy and unsure how to deal with her son who reminder her too much of her father... It doesn't excuse him, but it provides a poignant backdrop. Dammit I wish the prequels were better than they are.
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Finn's whole identity was stolen, and he will probably never know who he once was. He is free to choose who to be, but he is also all on his own to begin with, making a choice all of his own.
Rey was abandoned (as far as we know), and she knows the hopelessness of having no future. (The scene where she cleans the day's loot and looks up to see the old woman across from her, her future made flesh, is one of my favourite scenes in the whole story.)
Ben Solo was always special, the son of heroes, the grandson of the most evil man in the universe, gifted and talented and probably painfully suggestible. One of the reasons I love the Emo Kylo Ren Twitter feed so much, is that - although very silly - it's not inaccurate in the look into his mind. The father who is silly and jovial, where Ben would be serious and sensitive, the mother who is busy laying the foundations of a rebellion, loving, but probably busy and unsure how to deal with her son who reminder her too much of her father... It doesn't excuse him, but it provides a poignant backdrop. Dammit I wish the prequels were better than they are.