Swing to head, the collective heroics of just a kid, to see him grow just as we did. Spidering the reality of fate to find, there is no height to leave yourself behind. With great power at play, what levels the score? This is the heart of Spider-Man: No Way Home..
This post is about the movie Spider-Man: No Way Home. Directed by Jon Watts. Starring Tom Holland, Zendaya, and Benedict Cumberbatch.
With Great Power
Just as you’ve made your way back home, you’re webbed front and center with nowhere to go. A breaking for you, a burden to friends; if only a wish, it could meet its end.
All spell breaks loose, and neither world forgives. The problem isn’t your life, but the two you live. To hide from the truth is a reality you relent; good, you can choose, when it doesn’t make sense.
Live for what matters, not matter the loss, as what they stood for, is all but lost. Heroes are not born but crawl to nobility; always remember:
With great power there must also come great responsibility.
Two Different Lives
“After everything we’ve been through together, somehow I always forget you’re just a kid. Look Parker, the problem isn’t Mysterio, it’s you trying to live two different lives and the longer you do that the more dangerous it becomes, believe me.”
~ Dr. Strange
Identity kids itself as it grows, facing the exposé of lies and fallen truths. You are to make sense of who you really are and what you’ve done; questions force a sense of what there is to believe. If for so long you did as you knew to be the greatest right, how could any part of you feel relieved?
Amid lying in the consequence of what you never chose, the greatest gift is any sort of sense of normal, though not so much the case for any one of us.
If you are to expect disappointment are you ever to be disappointed? As if ever, you could be any more fortunate.
Rejection brings enough to wonder the passage of choices in the web of possibilities, and only if maybe, it is your own wish that can be granted.
So much of ourselves think we are to live in the ruins of known and unknown reality, when the real problem is not living in what we are called to live.
It’s simpler than we thought it to be, yet we still fight the follies of our own making.
Have A Heart
“Strange, we can’t send them back. Not yet.” ~ Peter
“Why?” ~ Dr. Strange
“Becuase some of these guys are going to die.” ~ Peter
“Parker, it’s their fate.” ~ Dr. Strange
“Come on Strange, have a heart.” ~ Peter
What’s then to be what saves us? Evidently so we realize the best choices we can make are not about ourselves. So much more lives in the opposite.
If at every time our own messes are ones in which we alone are to clean up, we might as well fly out into the darkness to fight ghosts.
We can only try to do better.
The blame in mistakes are much to go around; hard to bear when felt to be ours solely. The mind can wander lost in this, crying unsure how we got here.
A problem that is as much ours as we made it to be; to have not a heart for those who need it, is to send one back to the graves of death.
Is it so much fate, or simply the choice to have a heart? If our fate is the summation of choices, can we not change who we are? Living for the consequence of a second chance.
What Else Can I Call It?
“Nah man I’m talking about the world, I kinda like who I am here. And all that power back there, I can be so much more.”
~ Electro
This world is voidless of possibilities, with powers at work to drive madness as it borders sincerity. Workings that take faith, prevailing our darker half, to sense what more remains hidden behind the eyes of man.
Are we blind to see the roth of true power and its bringings? Is the mission of morality ill-fated, for there to be nothing to save or fix? The struggle in our own wantings is so, as the world makes us choose. Or is man to take?
Morality is not the weakness that chokes us. Power is not ours to seek. Yet it seems every good deed is met with a loss not of our own wanting.
In the grand calculus of that in which we are wared against, we are no greater than what we submit to in kind.
Living to know the reality of this great pain, we run from what we never chose all the same. A tragedy, what else can I call it? What more needs to be said?
We are awake enough to realize the damage and destruction that ensues, the living that comes to ruin. And we, the innocents are left to pick up the pieces.
God help us all.
Great Responsibility
“Even after she was hurt, she said to me: with great power…” ~ Peter 1
“…comes great responsibility” ~ Peter 2
In our grievings senses of help can come to path a restoration of what has been lost. In the places of meaning, understanding holds the grief we carry. Amongst these times, amid these seasons, it is not time to give up; never can you not care.
There is darkness that surrounds us, and it is darkness we are to get through. To give into it, is not to make things better, even as it grieves to do good.
As with great power comes great responsibility.
Given death has lost its sting, then we have not died for nothing.
All is worth saving, all can be saved. As with the effort to try for better, love can live amidst grace. The very posture that stands second chances, living as it swings for us too.
Trying To Do Better
“It hurts cause they’re gone and it hurts all over again cause you remember what they stood and you wonder, is all that gone too?’” ~ Happy
“No it’s not gone. Everyone that she helped, they’ll keep it going. ” ~ Peter
Rage and bitterness are not to get the better of us, rather forgiveness is to get the final blow. You wrestle long enough to find that within the struggle lies something still worthy of life. This is to say goodbye to the pains of youth — it’s what we do.
In living we hope to find what life once asked us to lose. The magic is that it can still be found again. For after all, in the great spell of things, there is a way back home — living in the safety of your true intentions.
Although it hurts — first because they’re gone, then all over again because you remember what they stood for — it is never truly lost, for the good lives on in those saved and pass the Spirit forward.
In the suffering you gain that which you would have never known otherwise — Meaning. Purpose.
Knowing what it means to love your neighbor. To know what it means to be a friendly neighbor.
To The Believer
Each of us are given our own gift, one that comes with great responsibility.
To be faced time and time again with the peril of the fallen’s fate, the shadow we cannot escape.
I have seen enough with my own eyes and spirit to know that we are not left alone to pick up the pieces of what has come to ruin in this world.
As reckless fools, we are blinded by all that we want, with the world offering an abundance to choose from. In our weakness, we take.
We can only be so careful in trying to mind every way we fall.
I hurt to think this is not my problem, to believe in my silence, I offer there is somewhere else to go.
So I try to do better, not pulling the punches of my faith. And in my weakness, I take on a strength that is not my own.
In the end, it will be as though I am gone, but in living for what is truly worth living for, that too shall remain. It is the very life that keeps all things going.
For it is not about me; I love the Lord God with all my heart.
And in so, He has shown me there is a way home.
“In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
~ Matthew 5:16
Further Reflections
Superman: To Make The World A Better Place
Look up. See how much there is to fight for. Explore the vibrant electric clash of great strengths and weaknesses, that is Superman.
Meet The Robinsons: Keep Moving Forward
What are you to make of yourself when left alone to discover who that’s supposed to be? It’s all up to you to keep moving forward.
Fantastic Four: First Steps and The Makings of Family
A reflection on the greatest gift there is, and the heroics of love and unity.
Credit: Script excerpts and select images from Spiderman: No Way Home (© Sony Pictures Releasing) are included for purposes of reflection and thematic analysis.
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