22. AN UNDERWORLD

摘要

It's no accident that Luke Skywalker's first step into a larger world takes him into a den of iniquity. When a galaxy falls under the shadow of an oppressive imperial regime, commerce doesn't grind to a halt-it goes underground. And even a square old Jedi like Obi-Wan knows that when the Man shutters all the stores, you take your business to the back alley. Had the Mos Eisley cantina sequence been merely a parade of latex-masked aliens, we might have dismissed Star Wars as flimsy space opera.