Gripping, But Preachy About Identity Politics

Rating: 5/10 (4 April 2019)

I so want to agree with everyone that this movie was amazing and fantastic and perhaps the best thing since the invention of sliced bread, but when you look closely there are significant problems.
Let's start with what was good;
1, the comprehensive construction of Miles as a personality, from his dialogue to his jokes from his singing to his clumsiness, this was realised in micro-gestures and facial expressions as was Miles' father and uncle, a brilliant piece of animation.
2, the movie created a comprehensive atmosphere and style and was planned and executed to an inch of its life.
3, you were gripped from the start, whilst watching the movie there was a great dramatic impetus, you were desperate for a conclusion.
4, the music, graphics and minute detail was all brilliantly realised.
What was not good;
1, if you take out the character development, that must be secondary to the story, we have boy infected by spider, trying to stop the Kingpin from using a machine to bring back his dead family, this is hardly a substantial story.
2, if, and I believe it is the case, that the story above was incidental and that the "real" story was "everyone can wear the mask" this is using or abusing the vehicle of Spider-Man to advance forward a political agenda.
3, if we had a parallel dimension then Spider-Man would be the same in each dimension, just as New York was the same in each dimension, if we had a alternative dimension then nothing would be the same so there would perhaps not be a Spider-Man, this was jumbled thinking at its best, which is it?
4, we had blatant gender and racial appropriation and a whole array of divisive stereotyping that was used to underpin a political agenda, it was perhaps even gross tokenism, let's say no more.
It cannot be right to use a movie to promote ideologies of globalisation, political correctness and identity politics and embed this within the core of a movie and this needs to be called out for what it is, this is indoctrination and liberal authoritarianism bordering on brainwashing.
I did enjoy the movie whilst I was watching it but afterwards I felt I had been cheated, preached at and manipulated to a political world view, that is the latest Hollywood fashion trend, that places identity above everything and we are all citizens of nowhere.