Acknowledgments to the "Starwalks War", We knew that the massacre in Gurman was something that would come in the head at some point during this season at Andor. This third series of episodes in Season 2 gave us a look at how the Imperial Security Bureau cited the Gomens in protest, how they shaped the galactic feeling against the Gomans and crashing them with superior fiery power. Now that we saw the eighth episode of this second season and the massacre itself was played, we are able to understand the ultimate humiliation with which the empire worked. He was so disgusting, even turning to Cyril Carn (Kyle Soller), and he says that a little since he was so dedicated to the order brought from the empire.

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Gurman's protest and the follow -up massacre is not without the echoes of films from the past, and there are two especially that they feel shocking and adding so much to the episode tapestry.

There is something poetic about how much French is already Gomor's sound. It is constructed, word -by -word, based on French phonetics. Seeing the people with that French sense of their language and deep resistance against the occupiers, which have long been encoded as militarist Nazis have always been a powerful picture of "Starwells War", especially since the "war of Starvali" has always had political symbolism.

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No wonder the directors would create a moment that causes the same exciting emotional influence as a classic film dealing with French resistance against the Nazis. In the 1942 Michael Curtis Icon Film "Casablanca", the French People's Assembly in the Rick American cafe drowned the hatred of the Nazis by singing a cordial pronouncing of their own national anthem, "Les Marseys. It is one of the best moments in a movie full of great moments, and every time I watch it, it manages to bring me tears without failure. It speaks of a people who have not lost hope in their country before such evil and tyranny, and they are willing to stand regardless of the consequences. At Gurman, they have the same conviction as they sing their anthem in the faces of the imperials who they consider to be ready to make violence. It is an emotional moment in the episode and has a beautiful and seriously modulated this moment of "Casablanca" in the "Starwalks War" in a new and unexpected way.

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In the classic EP of Sergei Eisenstein since 1925, the silent epic "Butlip Potemkin", "There is an infamous sequence known as" Odessa's Steps ". The film tells the story of Russian sailors on the ship Potemkin and their rebellion during the 1905 revolution. In the last act of the film, there are a group of civilians who see and cheer them up, but a group of Cossacks arrives, suppress civilians on the square from the top of the staircase and open fire as they march on them. This image has become an iconic trophy throughout the history of the film. This was the origin of the baby shipping that was moving along the stairs while people were killed, repeated most famous in the "untouchable". When it comes to "Starwells War", George Lucas has found an inspiration in this sequence of Anakin Skywalker's march against the Temple of the stairs along with 501 in the "Revenge of Sitt".

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But we get a version of it here in Andor, because the Jackboen Stormtroopers on Empire puts civilian protesters on the square - Square already memory of the previous massacre on the site - while they are overthrown one by one. It evokes the same terrible feelings that Sergei Eisenstein provided to the film more than a hundred years ago, adding this long line to the history of the film and adding the vocabulary to this highly efficient cinema language showing us innocent people dying under the heels of tyrants and their soldiers.

This sequence in Andor was brutal and cardiac, and relying on these two specific moments in the history of the cinema, lent gravitations that added even further to that, proving once again that the filmmakers behind Andor have an impressive mastery over the Chinese language.

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Andor's 2nd season ends with the final with three episodes next week at Disney+.