Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Themes
Coming of Age
The Phantom Menace isn't a coming of age story like, say, Big, focusing on a single character's transition from youth to adulthood. We don't see a young Anakin Skywalker wish upon a Sith lord to be...
Memory and the Past
George Lucas designed the prequels to be an "echo" of story of the original trilogy. And watching The Phantom Menace is like rereading the first stanzas of a familiar poem.Like the rhythms in poetr...
Politics
When watching the film for the first time, a couple of words in the opening crawl may feel very anti-Star Wars to you. "Taxation," "congress," "trade routes"—what are these topics doing in a Star...
Greed
The characteristic of greed divides the characters of The Phantom Menace. Greedy characters join team Bad Guy; benevolent characters join team Hero. Then they're lined up on opposite sides of the g...