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Dune: Part Two is a pointed examination of the books’ most subversive ideas
Denis Villeneuve reaches new heights with Dune: Part Two.
Though Dune: Part Two continues to build on the first film’s intricate mystery about how Paul is almost certainly the chosen one fated to lead the Fremen to paradise, the new movie uses Chani and her fellow northerners like Shishakli (Souheila Yacoub) to illustrate what the actual work of sustaining a revolution looks like. This is true of Irulan as she covertly chronicles history’s events by her father’s side, and Margot as Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam (Charlotte Rampling) sends her on an important mission to the largely colorless Harkonnen homeworld. By foregrounding Chani and Jessica so strongly in Dune: Part Two ’s story and using their arcs to add more context to Paul’s transformation into Muad’Dib, Villeneuve and co-writer Jon Spaihts make it almost impossible to misinterpret the film as a straightforward white savior narrative.
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