Star Wars isn't an intellectual treatise, but there is a consistent underlying structure and its mode of expression is highly affecting and occasionally sophisticated in imagery, musical score, and symbolism. The meaning may be simple, but to fully understand it you also have to understand its transformation into cinema, and that's complex.

This doesn't even get into the problem of reproduction. Star Wars is a product of the auteur era and only an auteur could effectively capture it authentically.

Like I'm sure Gareth Edwards is more than capable of understanding the philosophy of Star Wars. But he just doesn't.

Star Wars isn't an intellectual treatise, but there is a consistent underlying structure and its mode of expression is highly affecting and occasionally sophisticated in imagery, musical score, and symbolism. The meaning may be simple, but to fully understand it you also have to understand its transformation into cinema, and that's complex.

This doesn't even get into the problem of reproduction. Star Wars is a product of the auteur era and only an auteur could effectively capture it authentically.