Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse: Miles’ Bedroom

Traveled within dazzling sight in an infinite constellation of universes spider-man across the spider-verseThere is one that has perhaps escaped us in all its simplicity.

The bedroom, or rather the bedroom of Miles Morales, does not, perhaps, represent the grand spatial dimensions or the stratified chaos of other universes. And yet, as never before in this new Spider-Man saga, our hero’s camera (for our convenience let’s talk about it in the singular) acquires an allegorical dimension that defines the protagonists’ characters. : Model, passion but not only.

For Miles, the bedroom, for all intents and purposes, becomes a fundamental place for the process of self-criticism, reflection, a source of genesis from which new universes can be launched. Indeed, it is a safe space where our young protagonist feels safe and free to express herself. In this sense, for the first time we know Miles Morales in the progenitor of the saga, a new universeWe see the young protagonist sitting at his desk, busy making a tag, while listening to the single through headphones. Sunflower by Swae Lee and Post Malone. Thus our new hero appears before us, in a moment”vibrationshim in the bedroom. It looks like this movie tells us that this is the true size of our Spider-Man.

The Spider-Man who is less “man-hero” in this new animated version than his famous predecessors and more and more a boy eager to grow up, but at the same time, committed to being a teenager like everyone else . Here the superhero, or as we have come to know it, inside his rooms (one at home and the other at school) clearly shows us what his superhero-models are: in the first chapter we constantly take a chance see the wrapper print while inside spider-man across the spider-verse Above the bed we find a poster of A$AP Rocky. Both stars perfectly represent that new world of reference in the Spider-Man saga presented by hip-hop culture, and above all through soundtracks from artists such as Post Malone, Swae Lee, Lil Wayne, Offset.

Finally, more hidden, almost imperceptible, under Tottenham it is also possible to glimpse a poster of the great Korean footballer, Hyung Min Son, a character who has long been associated with spider verse Thanks to his celebrations that mimic Webb’s gestures, but also thanks to his friendship with Tom Holland, the current Spider-Man of the live action universe.

In short, with great powers come great responsibilities, but Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s saga focuses not so much on the hero’s awareness of his responsibilities as on the long and exhausting process that many Like others, a child is also taken along with her models. In the context of this awareness, of its weaknesses and its question marks about life. And so Miles’ room not only legitimizes itself as a refuge or “comfort zone”. Right from the womb it becomes the starting point in the protagonist’s personal reflection, in questioning himself, which is necessary to reach an awareness of one’s means. Inside the bedroom several times throughout the two chapters of the animated saga, we see Miles thinking to himself, searching for answers to who he wants to be, where he wants to go. The goal, or simply the next step to take, is somewhere else, outside the windows, beyond the walls of his room.

,miles, wanna get out of here,

Gwen asks Miles pointedly before setting off on a new adventure through the portal, whose features are reminiscent of an infinite “umbilical cord” that solidly connects the infinite universes of meaning available to our eyes and Miles. . Our hero’s room is one of those universes, in some ways the most important, because it represents the formation of Miles’ identity, his personality. And it is no coincidence that the awareness of not being in one’s own universe and the corresponding alienation that strikes the protagonist at the end of the second chapter occurs right inside his (non) bedroom. In fact, the hero’s crisis begins with the question of what his identity is and the corresponding fragmentation of the ego. Here, the idea that there is another version of Miles Morales (it’s no coincidence that he turns out to be the villain), in another life, in another world, in another house, in another bedroom, with another mother, With another father, represents one of the most difficult tests Spider-Man has ever faced, a radical reflection on the concept of contemporary super-hero identity (never so broken and fragmented) Is.