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Everything you think you know about Star Wars is wrong.

If you think the Star Wars franchise is a story of good vs evil set in space with cool coloured laser swords, aliens and space ships, while technically you might be correct you are missing about 90% of the franchises charm. The film has much more to do with mental health and self actualisation than most people, besides fans, understand. When I first saw Star Wars I was 5 or 6, it was in London which, for a Chester lad, was special in itself, I didn't get to see it again until the advent of VHS, and it was every bit as special the second time as it was the first. However it wasn't until my late teens and early twenties that I started to understand and unravel the subtlety of the initial trilogy which has had the same message through the later prequels at the turn of the millennium, to the final three more recent films. Whilst at it's core, the premise of the movies hinges around the light side and the dark side or good vs evil, the juxtaposition of these two extremes is...