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| Miles Morales |
In Spider-Man:
Into the Spider-verse, we meet Miles Morales. A teenager who lives with his
parents in Brooklyn, NYC. Miles is black, has Hispanic ancestry, from his
mother, and his father is a African American. When the movie was first
announced the first thing I thought was "Wow, we'll have black Spider-Man.
A great subject to talk about black representativeness in animations."
However, the film astonished me beyond its ethnic-racial themes.
While you watch
the animation, you do not feel that the production wanted to be politically
correct. At least, that's not how I felt. The characters are there, naturally
exposing in a fluid way the characteristics of people living in Brooklyn. Like
when Miles greets his friends on his way to the new school. At that point, when
the character says, "This school is elitist," we subtly realize that
although he deserves to be at that institution, Miles does not feel like he
belongs there. And in Miles's father's relationship with his Uncle Aaron, we
can see a reality, not so distant from ours, about the lives of people living
on the suburbs. For even though they were raised in the same place and shared
the same hobbies in their youth, each one's choices led them to such divergent
paths.
Now my biggest surprise, but not unexpected, was
the female representativeness in this animation. We have women of all ages,
with fundamental roles within the story. Not to spoil, I'll just comment on our
spider woman: Gwen Stacy. In her universe, she is the one who wears the cloak
of Spider-Man and throughout the story helps Peter and Miles face the villains.
I already knew the character, but for the girls who will watch this animation,
Gwen is more a heroine in whom they can inspire themselves. She is the
character who says: I can beat up villains, dance ballet and be a drummer on a
band.
The biggest
message of this movie is: We can all be Spider-Man. This is where we can talk
about diversity. "The Spider-men" of each universe have their own
characteristics and each one proves that it does not matter if you are man,
woman or a little pig, we all have the means to reach our potentialities. The
path will not be easy, but we can not give up. After all, "With great
power comes great responsibility."
I'm quite biased when it comes to Spider-Man,
since I've been a fan of the webhead since the 1994 animated series, but this
animation is flawless, it has the right balance between the comic toned action
scenes and the more emotive ones, without appealing to clichés, but in accord
with the very history of Spider-Man and the very well-organized
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