Ideological Criticism - May The Force Be With You

                Having a strong belief in good verse evil, this artifact was perfect for my ideological criticism.  I stumbled on it, for the first time, this weekend.   This YouTube, at the onset, appears to be a parody of both Star Wars, and the dueling banjo scene from the movie Deliverance.  My oldest middle-aged son, Travis, is still a Star Wars fanatic.  I vividly remember taking him to that movie for the first time and watching him explode in excitement, much as I did when I first saw Superman and Star Trek, as man challenged the next frontier to fight evil.

                Deliverance was the first movie I ever walked out on.  I was on a first date with a beautiful Mormon girl, and it infuriated me that sodomy could be displayed on a public screen as entertainment.  I had also just blown the entire week’s dating budget on that film.  That move was a conundrum because; I also loved the theme song, Dueling Banjos.  Can you love something that displays evil and good at the same time?  This is why I chose this artifact; it brought two memories of vivid opposite emotions, right and wrong. 

                There is no question, on the surface; this artifact is about Star Wars. The costumes and scenery are an amazing portrayal, but they are playing the theme song with electronic cellos in a dueling banjo style.   The stage is simplistic, yet perfect for this production of the Star Wars Cello Dueling Universe.     The backdrop is a light colored earth-type planet on one side [the good place] and a red planet on the other [the dark side], which seems divided, or possibly guarded in the middle, by a satellite embedded with a black circle. 

                I observed this artifact as a portrayal of a Christian value ideology.  It emerges as a duel of good verse evil, with an observing entity in the middle and watching through a dark hidden eye.  Within the first 30 seconds we see two opposing men, who look like brothers, one dressed in white the other black, playing matching colored instruments that starts out like a true battle for dominance over the other.  It’s a cleaver dueling cello saga of who is better or who should live.  Soon their bows turn to light sabers in colors of white, for purity, and red, for evil.   There are symbolisms throughout the performance with clashes of sabers then hands unleashing the powers of their Gods demonstrating force-fields and lightning-bolts.  There clenched teeth and tight jaw let you know this might be a fight to the death, a dominant Christian ideology of good triumphing over evil.  At 1:46 in the message, good wards off evil with the wave of his hand.   Darth Vardar then appears, possibly portraying the Devil, and takes up playing an accordion.  Is this the Devils ultimate weapon of submission, as both mortals begin to cower in fear?   I could see an accordion being that instrument, bringing mere mortals to their knees the longer it is played.  Is this artifact really saying that they are not brothers, but instead the same individual with opposing personality traits, a light and dark side to their single presence?  That becomes more plausible as they seem to come together to silence Darth Vardar (about 3:20).  However, Darth Vardar then begins dancing with Chewbacca, who has made fleeting cameo appearances.  Is Chewbacca the symbol for the Holy Spirit, who is there to offer assistance to the mortals by sidetracking the deeds of the evil one?

                Then a crescendo takes form when both mortals are knocked back, then take a critical stance and spring-charge into the air in a final saber death attack against the other.  Then it just ends. 

                This artifact has only been an attempt to entertain by creating a viral YouTube video which, with 5.6 million hits, it is.  The final few seconds is a shameless, but cleaver rouse, to have you post it on your Facebook account and spam it to all your friends.  It is nothing more than a cleaver, and well done, modern form of advertisement.  Or is it?  Did evil win thus spamming and Facebook are tools of the evil one you are now the vessel for spreading his message?

                Is there another ideological message here as well, that the fight of good verse evil is eternal, only interrupted by brief commercial breaks?  I see these deeper meanings in my ideological interpretation of this artifact.