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Thursday, May 19, 2005

Is This Star Wars The One?
"Star Wars, Episode III, The Revenge of the Sith" may well be the ultimate in the George Lucas series, as it continues to pioneer a new art form: spirituality fiction. Some have compared the sixth and final episode to Shakespeare. No way. For all its battle scenes, its vision is comic, not tragic, as is the core myth of American civil religion which the entire series promulgates.

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