Sony’s Spider-Man: No Way Home is here. After months and months of anticipation, I feel glad to be able to say that it meets all the expectations and more.
Sure, its main selling point was that it was reuniting two decades’ worth of nostalgia into one single film. However, the film is more than just Spidey fighting the bad guys. It’s where we see Spider-Man’s biggest weakness and his biggest strength – his morality.
The film embodies ‘Home is not a place but the people in it’ – where even the “bad guys” found their way home at the cost of our hero losing his. By the end of the film, Peter pays the price of being forgotten by his loved ones but not even bat an eyelid doing it.
The driving force of the film is Peter wanting to save (later fix) everyone. It begins with the people he loves.
Peter is almost coping well with his Spider Man identity exposed and only seeks Dr. Strange’s help when MJ and Ned are affected because of him.
Later when multiversal villains make their way into his life, he believes even they can be helped. (Sure it took some convincing from Aunt May, but there had to be some good in there that her words latched onto.)
Even after Aunt May dies, Peter gets back up to help “cure” the villains. It looks like it is a multiversal characteristic of being a Spider-man. Both Tobey Maguire’s and Andrew Garfield’s Peters want to save Harry and give the villains a second chance. Tom Holland’s is also the same.
In fact, when Tom’s Peter loses his calm with his virtues hanging by the thinnest thread, we see Tobey’s Peter stopping him from killing the Green Goblin.
It ends badly. Tobey gets stabbed by the same villain he was trying to save but all he care about is his will to save Tom’s Peter from himself.
It could feel like they’re hammering it in that his morality might be his biggest weakness. Green Goblin even blames Peter’s humanity for the multiversal mess, quite correctly. But is it, though? In the end, what matters is he saved people, he is a superhero.
Even though Dr. Strange stood by his stance that the villains dying was their “fate”, and I for one agreed with him.
(Kind of weird when you think about how Steven Strange’s job was to literally save lives before he started “Scooby-Doo-ing this crap.”)
But Spider-Man is the best of the best because he accepts the price he has to pay for peace.
Spider-Man is constantly losing people he loves and might be the loneliest superhero but never once does he let his heart grow cold or lose his morality – his ultimate strength.
Spider-Man: No Way Home is now in theatres, so go check out the ultimate superhero movie.
About Spider-Man: No Way Home
Spider-Man: No Way Home is an upcoming American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. It is intended to be the sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spider-Man: Far From Home.
The film was directed by Jon Watts and stars Tom Holland as Peter Parker / Spider-Man. He is joined by Zendaya, J,B. Smoove, Jacob Batalon, Marisa Tomei, Jamie Foxx, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Alfred Molina. The film is not yet available for streaming on Disney+ but the BluRay package is set to arrive March 22.
It will pick up from the events of Spider-Man: Far From Home whose ending revealed Peter’s Spider-Man identity to the world. Numerous villains from previous movies such as Doctor Octopus and Electro are also set to return.
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