Rian Johnson Explains Rey’s Strange Mirror Scene In Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Star Wars: The Last Jedi had a lot of cinematic scenes, and one of those scenes includes the part where Rey (Daisy Ridley) finds herself called into the pit of the Dark Side on Ahch-To. One of Rey's biggest struggles is finding more about her parents and why she was left behind, and in the Dark Side pit Rey tries to look for answers. There she ends up seeing multiple versions of herself, leading the way towards fogged-up glass. Rey sees two figures walking towards her, only to find her own reflection standing in front of her at the end of it all.

Speaking during a Question and Answer session with fans (via Comicbook), The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson explains how he came up with the strange but highly artistic scene.

"The origin of that was honestly just very, very, very early before I started even coming up with story," Johnson said. "It was a visual image I had in my head just when I was thinking about Rey and thinking about what was important to her and her search really for identity and for place. It was just an image that came into my head of this infinite line of, you know, possibilities of self in this infinite line of possibilities of identity and the notion then of playing with which one is the 'real her'."

Knowing your parentage is part of one's identity, and during the end of the scene, Rey is heartbroken to learn that she's alone.

"It ends at a place that shows her basically her kind of worst fear which is that there is just her. She's alone, which, again, is true from a certain point of view and very untrue from another point of view. That last scene on the Falcon with Leia, I think, is kind of the response to the end of that mirror scene," the filmmaker goes on to explain.

Though some fans feel upset by how Johnson turned Rey's parents into nobodies instead of revealing that she was related to a Star Wars legacy character like Luke or Obi-Wan, others find the director's decision rather fulfilling. Turning Rey into a nobody teaches viewers that you don't need to be part of the Skywalker legacy or any other fatalistic prophecy to be a hero. You just have to stand for what's right.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi is currently screening in cinemas.

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