“In this story, I think Rey and Kylo are almost like a dual protagonist. You identify with Rey, but also you identify with Kylo in a way that you never did with Vader. I know I do.
Because if these movies are about adolescence, Kylo is that anger of adolescence and that rejection of the parents, and wanting to screw your dad; and that’s something that all of us, to some degree, can identify with.
And the idea of there being a bad guy who you identify with as much as you do the protagonist in some way, that’s really interesting.”
— Rian Johnson, SciFiNow Magazine