LUKE SKYWALKER: Myth is so much more important and true than history.
LEIA ORGANA: Well, history is just journalism, and you know how reliable that is.
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The new documentary THE RESISTANCE tells the eye-opening history of the Second Galactic Civil War from the point of view of those who fought in it. To capture this vantage point, director R.B. Arraneth has gathered together the rare candid holo footage of its soldiers, pilots, droids, and lauded generals, splicing it together with interviews and excerpts of their own words. The result is an intimate portrait of the heroes of the Resistance, as they truly were.
“The documentary explores how life actually was on the ground of an ongoing conflict,” says Arraneth. “Though it profiles of a handful of soldiers, it is really meant to serve as a reflection on us in a post-Civil War galaxy, and the sense of mythos we project on the people who fought in it.“
THE RESISTANCE is a tragic, heartening, personizing, and revelatory report from the front lines of a struggle that spanned the known galaxy.
#no shut up I want this and I’ll never get it and it breaks my heart #somewhere on the resistance base is that one weirdo who insists on whipping out their holocorder at the slightest provocation #who has several terabytes of grainy holo footage—poe crooning lullabies over bb-8 as she powers down #jess and iolo playing sabacc under the wing of a x-wing as a storm howls outside the hangar #the time the fire alarms—of all things—roused them all from their beds and the general showed up at command barefoot #her hair down around her shoulders; down to her waist #intelligence throws the best parties (no one asks where they get the top-shelf liquor and expensive food #everyone is a little afraid of intel) and there’s hours of footage with the resistance #all of them #(war is good for snatching a little bit of immortality while you can get it) #and then thirty years later when they’re all old and graying and have their own babies they’re raising in the beautiful new galaxy #some kid is going through the archives and finds all of it; all the moments preserved in grainy holo footage #the first time rey levitated a rock with the force; finn’s terrible jokes #poe wide-eyed and high on caf talking a thousand words a minute with rey about some mechanical detail about x-wings #every argument luke and leia had about how big the exhaust port was on the death star and what happened at jabba’s #and this kid going through this footage of all these larger than life heroes—this kid falls in love #and makes a movie #and I get stupid emotional thinking about it so NOW YOU ALL HAVE TO ENDURE ME THINKING ABOUT IT (via @notbecauseofvictories)