Here's only for those who have already seen the movie and also to look back my personal memo before watching it.
So this is finally all about missing Luke Skywalker. His mysterious existence has been shedding light to the hope or sometimes shadowing the untold history all through the story and the cinematic impact when he finally shows himself and face with Rey, for only a minute without any words, blew my mind. Rey's awakening of strong force, Han's tragic death caused by his own son, the fight against Star Killer, the reunion of R2-D2, C-3PO and Leia, with introduction of new attractive characters like Finn, Poe and BB-8, make us excited and satisfied, but above all, this time the magnetics of Luke Skywalker rules the movie. The reason of his missing is not specifically told but suggested that it has something to do with the fact that Kylo Ren, his nephew, turned to dark side. But the last sequence casts us further questions and curiosities to be continued to Episode VIII (in this way, the style of story telling is felt a bit like a television drama series).
Why Luke had to disappear, what is he doing in an isolated planet, why he quit fighting as a last Jedi knight and as a leader of resistance army and left everything behind, does he know Kylo Ren killed Solo, his best friend and brother-in-law, is Rey really a child of Luke, and if so why she had to be abandoned alone in a desert planet, is she thinking about finding and asking help for a Jedi knight, or rather finding her own father, and what is the story behind Luke's lightsaber (originally, Anakin's lightsaber) returned to the owner for the first time in over 30 years?
Another mysterious leading character, Rey, is just marvelous. Her inner and outer strength, emotional depth, strong will, intelligence, tact and freshness are fully and perfectly shining. The movie no doubt succeeds to create an attractive heroine who was born to carry her own destiny and mission but also try to challenge them. She seems to be not so naive as young Luke in Episode IV, and sometimes she has mixed feelings. In one of the unforgettable scenes when Rey overwhelms Kylo Ren in their lightsaber combat, she looks truly fierce with anger for a moment as if she is on the verge of turing to the dark side.
Finally, my personal question on AT-AT was satisfied with a very surprising way: Rey is living in a wreck of AT-AT! The idea reminds me of the scene that Luke was kept warm and alive in a Tauntaun in Episode V. Talking about the linkage with the past generation, Rey's hairstyling is very similar to Padme in disguise, and her outfit design seems to have mixed origins from Shmi Skywalker, Luke Skywalker and again Padme in combat uniform. Anyway she is already a seasoned fighter and we'll see her being trained as a Jedi not just with strength but with wisdom and balance of mind.
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