Millennials, according to the internet, are people born between 1981 and 1996. That's a bit of a gap, so it will be useful to narrow down the definition of our protagonist somewhat. This is a story about a relatively old Millennial, born in 1984. It is not at all inconceivable that this person will have a different perspective from a namesake born in the middle of the 1990s. This is a bias that we must accept such as it is. Even more specifically, this is a story about European millennial, born in Denmark, who has ended up in the United Kingdom. He is married to a Canadian woman of Guyanese, and ultimately Indian, descent, who is now a naturalised English citizen. The melting pot is real, and millennials are sizzling in its cauldron.
Read MoreLet's be clear about a number of key points from the start. Movie characters—especially in action movies like Star Wars—are infinitely less complex than the characters we can create and groom in short stories and novels. This is not because script writers and directors are superficial and simple-minded, but because different rules apply when you're writing a blockbuster movie script [1]. This is even more so when you consider that the writers of this particular script were writing for none other than the Star Wars franchise. No pressure whatsoever!
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