Most of the Star Wars sequel movies begin with a text that takes the viewer to another galaxy a long time ago. According to many, this is a gimmick. However, the movie sequel gives the viewers a sense of what is coming because the franchise has much of its interest in the past as compared to the future. Despite revealing to the audience about “a long time ago,” the movie sequel is set in the future and according to the manner in which the audience perceives it. The human society, as depicted in the Star Wars franchise, has a far much-developed technology regarding transportation, artificial intelligence (AI), and telecommunication among other things (Jenkins, 510). Everything that humans in the movies have seems to be better than what we possess in real life. However, these are the things that our society works towards achieving. What exactly about the kind of future does the sequel show its audience? Star Wars shows the world that in spite of the fact that space and laser are important; swords are more reflective and speculative than ever imagined. The movie franchise takes its audience to far-away planets and space, but when there, viewers find World War II, America in the 1930s, feudal Japan, and the classical Grecco-Roman age of heroes (Gordon, p. 4).

First, Star Wars is a fantasy that brings colonialism to life (Fitzgerald, N. pag). When Star Wars’ filmmaker, George Lucas, and his team came together to build their fantasy world, they wanted to give the films depth and political senses. As such, Star Wars films use the past to create their political and ecosystem structures. One oddity in Star Wars films is the idea of planets having one climate. Some of them are swampy, deserts, and ice planets. In reality, every planet has different climates, revealing the metaphor that Star Wars works with: every planet in the movie is a country in the real world. The metaphor allows Lucas and his crew to narrate stories from the British Imperialism era, making the empire familiar to the audience (Fitzgerald, N. pag). In Star Wars, the empire is the people’s enemy while heroes are the undisciplined rebels. This notion aligns the movies with themes from the West, even though mostly trapped with the narratives from Imperial Britain. A star destroyer in the film represents a navy ship while space is an ocean to travel when seeking adventure.

Star Wars makes the audience long for the past (Fitzgerald, N. pag). The movies use aerial dogfighting technique to create a depiction of the future. When one makes a comparison to the current warfare state, the reality is not as much satisfying. The Jedi culture represents feudal Japan as of the Akira Kurosawa’s movies. Star Wars’ aesthetics is that of the Nazi Empire and era. The AI in the film is also backward in a certain way as the AI act within a classical paradigm—the dynamic of the odd couple. The plot used in Star Wars is also classical in a certain way. As George Lucas states, Star Wars is a monomyth example. The film is a storyline which Joseph Campbell identified in 1949. One can interpret the Luke Skywalker’s journey in the film as one that aligns with classical figures and heroes like Odysseus and Hercules.

Despite the fact that Star Wars brings colonialism to life and makes the audience long for the past, it brings healing to the society in a peculiar way. One thing that makes Star Wars informative and great is not the future’s vision it brings but the image it creates, basing on the past. There is no prophecy in the film. Star Wars only makes it clear that thinking much about the future can be frightening. It allows one to know that having some knowledge of the past is fun. Apart from that, the film also provides the society with regression therapy by giving the society a chance of working through the past. Star Wars allows its audience to see the negativity associated with imperialism and how much power a righteous individual has, and how much right minds and thoughts can bind the community.

In conclusion, Star Wars’ directors narrate about the future and what to expect as far as world’s peace is concerned. The film is wrapped in images and visual effects and tells much about the future drawing its ideas from the past. The film gives the audience a sense of nostalgia and making the past captivating. Through the use of these concepts, the film’s directors can entertain the society, while having them think about the effects of war and imperialism.