Grief and sorrow is what unites people

Rating: 10/10 (10 September 2007)

I think people are wrong when saying that this movie is bad. I will give it a 10, simply for the deep messages it has, at least when you consider the age group at which this movie is directed to, which is mainly teenagers, and old fans that read the comics when the spider came out.
I think it has a bit of everything and it looks at things in a very psychological way. It starts out with both being celebrities, not knowing themselves, and it undergoes a series of transformations that couldn't have been handled differently for the final purpose of the movie. Grief is what unites people is only one of the many messages of the movie, the others being learning to be humble and respectful and all the connotations with it. I remember reading a book a couple of years ago about WWII, and why the world ended up being what it is now. The main idea was that the tremendous life loss, atrocities without equal in the history of mankind, prompted people to stick together, love each other, and the force of love after grief had to be so great, that now you see the French and the German standing together for the same beliefs, otherwise we would have been doomed to a sort of eternal recurrence of wars and revenges. The power of forgiveness ties in to this as well, and this becomes obvious with Peter Parker and the Goblin as well as the other main characters in the movie.
I think the only bad thing about this movie is that it's actually too short for the things that is trying to convey. It should have been a two part movie.
In any case I loved it, and I'll give it a 10, and this comes from someone who loved and understood movies like Fight Club, Jacob's Ladder or Revolver who are very underrated precisely because their messages are hidden in layers of understanding and people have a hard time untangling the ideas. Here however they're much more obvious but a little rushed in and not fully developed, but like I said for the audience it targets, its a great movie, and for us who are past or a little past our teen years, I would still say a great enjoyable movie for any occasion.