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YESSSSS me sitting my family down to analyze everything about the movie also that one 10 second scene where the guidance counselor is talking about how every student has a story and Miles is an “immigrant son” in a “struggling household” and his parents jump to clarify that he is neither of those things but the guidance counselor doesn’t listen and is still insistent on that tortured minority image AND ALSO that one scene of Miles and Rio where he says this is his life and she says no this is my and your father’s life and the life of everyone who came before you and sacrificed to get you here and wished they could live the life you have been given and this barely touches the burden and the absolutely opposing trajectories that the two generations live their lives with and the way the spiders and the other characters exhibit that
Got back from seeing the movie again and a tiny theme I liked was the solidarity in the younger POC generation vs the older gen.
Margo, Hobie, Pavitr and Miles all had eachother’s back. They fought together, they helped eachother in small ways like Hobie telling Miles to use the palms, and big ways like Miles saving Captain Singh and Margo letting Miles go “home”.
They could’ve stopped him, they could’ve not helped eachother but they did. Because they understood and they all realized what was wrong with the Spider Society. All of them at the end came together to support and help Miles, in the way the rest of the spiders couldn’t and didn’t.
And when you put that into perspective with Miguel and Jessica, older POC that gave no support. They believe that Miles has to suffer in order to become Spider-Man, that pain will always have to happen.
But the others don’t believe that, they know that best way to be a hero is uplift and help eachother. Often the parents, the older generation compromise their morals and others for the future, for them to grow up safer and yet the future generation always has to reckon with the consequences of those actions without even having a say in the first place.
That’s a damn message, and I love that they used the younger poc generation to show that because this does happen in real life, there is a difference and our parents, our grandparents believe that pain has to happen for our identity to be created.