On the last day of 2018, I watched the best animated movie of 2018-"Spider-Man: Parallel Universe". It's so exciting, from the special effects to the content, you can't help but fall through your glasses and smash the table.
Really absolutely.
One or six Spider-Man-facing different life issues
In fact, the story of Spider-Man is not new. Just like self-deprecating in the film, no matter which universe Spiderman (except Spider Pigman was bitten by a pig), he is an ordinary person. Because he was bitten by a mutated spider, he suddenly gained superpowers and began to save. world. This story can be said to be a cliché.
Since everyone is familiar with it, then the film has to be made elsewhere-people are used to the story of heroes saving the world, then one needs to go through the inner struggles and changes that a person needs to experience when he is lost when he becomes a hero from an ordinary person. The pain and relief to be experienced may not be so well-known.
After all, facing loss, facing failure, facing sudden responsibilities, facing the reality that ambition is greater than ability, is a life problem that every one of us and every generation cannot escape.
So when a hero faces these, what will he do?
1) The protagonist: find your own beliefs and know who you are
The protagonist of the movie is a teenager, possessing the rebellious characteristics of adolescence. When my father regarded his son as a dear baby and insisted that his son confess to himself in public, his son had already begun to pay special attention to others' opinions of him and had his own thoughts. The son loves to paint, but his father is forced to study hard. When the child's personality began to become independent, the conflict with his father also intensified.
The above is the background of the protagonist Myers. The protagonist's self begins to awaken, but he doesn't know how to establish his position. After being bitten by a poisonous spider, he began to show all kinds of talents and didn't know how to control it. Faced with new responsibilities and new abilities, this young boy's life is out of control. He was helpless and helpless, he couldn't find himself.
2) Beautiful Spider-Man: How to face loss
The beautiful Spider-Man Gwen Stacey, originally the girlfriend of the orthodox Spider-Man, was later killed by Spider-Man's enemies. But in Universe 65, she was bitten by a poisonous spider and became a female Spider-Man. The punk female Spider-Man in the universe of Miles also has her own life problem-she has lost her good friend. Because of the death of her best friend, she suffered terribly, and because she could not bear the pain of loss, she did not dare to establish new contacts.
She hid in her own safe zone, preferring not to get it in order not to lose it.
3 ) Middle-aged handsome uncle bereaved: pluck up the courage to face his regrets
The middle-aged handsome uncle is a portrayal of a large number of middle-aged men. In another parallel time and space, Peter Parker, Spider-Man, did not die young. This man who had experienced the blood and courage of his youth, ignored his family and his wife in order to save the world (his business). He asked for the former glory for a while, but he broke his wife's heart. After the middle-aged Spider-Man and his wife divorced, he suffered a career in Waterloo, was heavily in debt, and was alone. Sitting on the roof with a beer belly, it makes people worry about whether he will fall on purpose.
This kind of Spider-Man makes people feel that he is one of those middle-aged men who are increasingly reluctant to speak. They are proficient in business and capable, but they can't face their messy housework. My heart is full of guilt and regret, but I can't take a step in my own small space, and I can't say the sentence: I'm sorry, I was wrong, forgive me.
4) Rimanfeng Loli: Step out from behind the armor and learn to be on your own
The Japanese comic style Spider-Man Penny comes from the universe 14512. The robot she built became spiritual after being bitten by the radiating spider. Since then, she has cooperated with Penny to deal with various crises. In the universe of Miles, Penny broke away from her robot for the first time and faced the enemy alone.
The life problem that Loli Spider-Man Penny has to face is: get out of the protective shell, face the difficulties independently, solve the problems, and learn to grow up.
Everyone can see themselves in the film, everyone is a Spider-Man in their own world. Different parallel worlds run our similar but different destinies and lives.
The second main line-grow in pain, find yourself in confusion
The growth of the protagonist Max is the main thread of this story. His intertwined connections with different people promoted his own growth and made his character image more full. The connection with each character also constitutes a different dilemma that Max faced during his growth.
1) With father :
The protagonist Max’s father is a classic father image-a police father, strict and strong. In the eyes of his father, Max is always a child. But after Max entered adolescence, his self-awareness awakened and he began to want to control his own life. At the same time, he became more and more sensitive and cared more and more about what others thought of him.
So when his father forced him to transfer and forced him to say "Dad, I love you" out loud at the school gate, Max was extremely upset. After he shouted the words his father asked him to say, he felt that everyone was watching him jokes.
However, when he was bitten by a spider and possessed some unique invisibility skills, he saw another father he didn't know. When the father watched the dead uncle cry, he saw the fragility of the always strong father. When the identity of the uncle who was a thug for Kim was revealed, he understood the reason why his father was still not friendly to Spider-Man. When he was tied up in the house by the handsome middle-aged uncle, and after hearing that his father had lost his brother, he was showing weakness to him through the door, seeking care and understanding. He finally forgave his father.
It turns out that my father is also an ordinary person, he is not an enemy on the opposite side. The boy's rebellion was resolved. When Max was fighting with King, protecting the world and his family through battle and faith, his heart also strengthened. In the past, he would be ashamed and embarrassed to show love to his father loudly, but at this time, he dared to say loudly to his father: I love you. No longer worry about the opinions and gossip of others.
The connection between Max and his father is very touching, and it will touch everyone watching the movie.
Through empathy and the hidden perspective of Spider-Man, Max saw a different father and completed the reconciliation with his father. Learned how to love. At this time Max has completed the transformation from adolescence to adulthood.
2) With uncle:
Uncle has always been Max’s idol. He is tall and powerful, does what he likes, and knows a lot of interesting and trendy things. More importantly, he always encourages Max to do what he likes.
However, one day, Max discovered that his uncle was the one who chased him down. The image of the idol I had always admired collapsed.
In fact, his uncle seemed to be another idealized father of Max. However, the choice of righteousness and family affection has not been handed over to Max. After discovering the true identity of Spider-Man, the uncle hesitated and was killed by Jin. Max's illusion of an ideal father was also shattered.
This is the first major lost moment in Max's life. I lost the object I looked up to, and also lost my beloved relatives.
3) With yourself :
Whether it’s a father, an uncle, or the Spider-Man who arrives through time and space, the entanglement with these people will eventually return to Max himself.
Max wants to be himself, but he doesn't know how to be himself. The sudden responsibility made him panic; the sudden ability made him uncontrollable. There is also a sudden awakening of self-consciousness, which makes it difficult for him to control himself. Max's whole person and his whole mental state are in a state of chaos and out of control.
This kind of loss is uncomfortable, and others can't help. You are trapped inside and want to be yourself, but you can't find yourself. At that time, you were a waste wood with seemingly unlimited potential, but unable to make any progress.
Max can't find himself, and he doesn't know how to control his life. Until the death of his uncle, his father endured his grief and told him through the door that he suddenly found his own conviction and established the way forward-looking for and familiarizing himself with his unique talent to defend his friends and family. That belief made Max suddenly fearless. He began to familiarize himself with and adapt to his new skills, looking for his own unique fighting style, and discovering his potential through repeated efforts and attempts, finally possessing his own unique skill. .
This process in the movie is short, but in reality it is often extremely long and difficult. Max quickly found his way. With his conviction and unique skills, he chose his favorite suit and began to participate in the battle.
Prior to this, Max was a child wearing a fake Spiderman's suit, and used naive imitation to declare his yearning for becoming a generation hero. After experiencing the process of finding himself, he completed the unity with himself. Max at this time is the hero himself-he has his own unique costume and painting style, and at the same time he has a complete self.
Finding yourself and being yourself is a difficult journey, and you have to go through hard changes. Everyone who completes this transformation is a hero in his own world.
4) With companions :
After taking control of his combat skills, Max began to fight with his companions. When the teammates are there, they naturally cooperate with each other and are comfortable. But when all the teammates left, the battle belonging to Max really started.
Fighting alone has never been harder than you think. Max looked so weak in the face of the strong Jin Bin. Falling down or standing up, it seems just whether you can hold on to that idea more.
The previous Spider-Man failed to withstand the blow of Jin Bin, but the little Spider-Man Max did not give up in the end, and finally stood up, fought hard, and won.
Perhaps only when facing challenges alone will you know how much strength and help your companion brings to you.
The three villains: In the face of loss, different choices make different lives
1) There is only one sympathy between the villain Jin Bin and Spider-Man
It is the reaction to the loss. When Jin did not lose his love, his attitude was that even if the whole world was buried for me, I would go to find my wife and children at all costs. When Spider-Man loses his love, he is often in grief and indignation, but he still has to continue on the road to help others in crisis resolve the crisis and maintain world peace.
In Jin Bin's heart, my home is my world. In the heart of the hero, the whole world needs me to guard.
Kim Ho and Spider-Man only have one sympathy.
When you have the ability to empathize, you will feel sad and compassionate, and you will feel unbearable when you see your wife’s spouse and ruin. And a person who lacks empathy can only be indifferent and indifferent when he sees the pain of others.
When the hero himself is hurt, he can't bear to see others suffer the same damage. The villain takes revenge on the society because of his loss, making others as miserable as himself.
Anyone's life is constantly being lost, but different attitudes create different lives.
2) Are the bad guys doomed to fail?
Of course not. It is not that the bad guys are doomed to fail, but the weak are doomed to fail.
If you are a weak and good person, you are bullied and humiliated everywhere, so you can live a lifeless life. Whether to be a virtuous person is just a choice of standpoint. But if you want to defend your own rights or the rights of others, you still have to make yourself a strong one.
In the film and television works, we always see that the hero finally defeated the villain. In fact, on the one hand, it is to cater to the expectations of the audience, on the other hand, it is because of the selection and presentation of time nodes.
When you change the starting point of time, you will find that bad guys can also smile triumphantly at the end of the film. As long as you drag the timeline forward, for example, the story of Spider-Man begins and ends with the life of the dead Spider-Man. It became Spider-Man who stole the chip but was killed by Jin. The film ended tragically, and everyone mourned his fall.
Because what the film can show is only a period of experience in a character's life, the film is over, but the story continues. The old heroes have ended and new heroes have come forward. When the weak wicked dies, stronger ones will emerge. The struggle between heroes and bullies has been constantly changing.
Just like life and death, black and white, they will always check and balance each other, but no one can completely eliminate each other. From point to line, line to surface, what we can see is always limited by reality.
Four Stan Lee answered Little Spider's words
One of the important reasons for the success of Marvel's works for so many years is: Stan Lee pulls the perfect heroes off the altar, so that they also have all kinds of contradictions and predicaments like ordinary people. Greatly enhance people's resonance and sense of substitution.
Marvel is a comics company, and movies are a later thing. The multiple universes in the comics, the worldview of the ridiculous horror, is the closest to the original that has been presented so far. The most fascinating and moving part of Marvel's works is not only the visual effects that blind people's eyes, but also the collage and mashup of various styles of painstaking animation, but also the spirit conveyed in it.
How to live, how to solve the contradictions in each of us in our own lives. All of these can be answered in the film and be inspired. This is really grateful.
Just as at the end of the film, countless Batman kept busy, in fact, it is us who keep busy in this world. Every one of us is the hero in our own world when we solve and digest our own life problems.
Last but not least, I want to mention the conversation in the film where Stan Lee answered Little Spider at the Spider-Man clothing store.
Little Spider asked Stan Lee: Will this dress fit?
Stan Lee answered: It will fit one day. (The sign next to it says: No refunds or exchanges.)
I was thinking, could this spider suit actually be a metaphor for a life that cannot be returned?
That's not known.
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