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Delhi, India
A no-one moving towards no mind

Saturday, 12 August 2023

THE SPIDER’S WEB

 

Our dear old friendly neighbour has grown, from a scrawny animated creature in a twenty minute black and white  feature , beamed and lapped by awe struck kids,  like us ,in eighties to full bodied ones in different universes , seen and lapped  on a 3 D  IMAX screen, which puts you right in the middle  of  the action .

 

We would be huddled in a small room with just a fan  , at mercy of   eccentric TV owners and equally eccentric electricity  department,to watch  our twenty minutes dose of our hero.Never bothering what we wore ,ate or the guy next me , equally awe struck , was a driver’s or a peon’s son .It was a much a simpler world , before internet  and  we were blissfully  clueless about everything .”Spider- man Spider-man does whatever a spider can ” , the jingle from the  eighties show still rings in my head  .

 

The audience today , most of them , are fancy kids affording to spend five hundred rupees  for a movie ticket and another five hundred, for snacks, of their parents money, who  themselves would think twice  to watch this beautiful movie on IMAX . They all have  fancy smartphones, with internet,  opening  the door to the the kind of information which  probably only US Presidents had thirty years back .These phones are  used to click pictures, during the movie ,filter and post them on social media  to tell the world how cool or happy they are  raising  their  dopamine release threshold  inching closer to anxiety and loads of associated  issues .Incidentally they also get bored very fast , a word alien to most of us till now.

 

The first Spider-man movie   also reminds me of Rocky , my nineteen year old son , as I watched it with him and besides him I  was also awestruck with the movie .The Spider man hangover lasted for quite some time on us with me trying to drill into his two year old soft head the values that Spider-man tries to dish out during bed time stories.

 

As the saga continues, they keep dishing out movies better than the previous one you wonder each and  every time “Can they better this one? “. I mused the same thought again yesterday after we watched it with Vihaan , thirteen year old boy who, like me , also hates to reach late for the movie .I also could not stop myself from joining him and  the crowd on  clapping on two- three occasion.This time  they cant better this one .

 

Spider-man lives in imagination of all of us, kids , and I pray that  they  attempt to raise the bar again but  will Rocky , Parth, my firend’s twenty one year old son, , Vihaan , Adi , my thirteen  year old nephew will ever grasp  what Uncle Ben told Peter .




WRITTEN : DEC 21, Luckow after watching the movie

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