Saturday, May 5, 2007

Spiderman: Beyond Special Effects and Action

Yesterday luckily I happened to watch movie Spiderman-3. I said luckily bcoz me and my friend Tushar was coming back from one ceremony and suddenly we saw big spidy poster on Jai Ganesh Fame. We rushed in and fortunately got two tickets for 10:30PM show. Movie was as usual full of action scenes, fights between good and bad, special effects and action. But at the concluding scene of movie just clicked something in mind .This series of movie is not only about action but give out some self improvement message also.
Let us start with Spiderman-1. What happens in it is our hero gets spider bite and changes in DNA makes him super natural. Now the college going kid suddenly becomes super hero. To add into that his family is in financial crisis. Obviously he is confused about what to do with his powers. Then his grand father steps in and gives him advice that 'Power always brings responsibility with it'. So spidy takes it up correctly and becomes messiah for people in trouble. So what is lesson for us. Do not take undue advantage of your power or authority. Instead use it to help people around you.
Now consider case of spiderman-2. Spidy has now started playing care taker of NY city. But due to that his personal life was mess. He was not able to attend classes in university, take care of his grand mother properly and above all due to some bad journalism his image is spoiling. He is totally confused and he loses his all powers. When he thinks over it, what he realizes is - what ever the matter just stick to basics and do not compromise with personal life in doing so. He starts his work with new energy. It sends out clear signal that to excel in your profession there should be proper balance between personal and professional life.
In the last movie of this series Spiderman starts using his power for his own good due to some extra terrestrial parasite. He had choice to come back to his own mission or continue as it is. But he chooses to continue as it is. Due to that he hurts lot of people which then turns into his enemy. Even he hurts his friend and girl friend. He becomes totally self centric. But in spite of this he is not ready to leave parasite bcoz he is having the feeling of supreme power. Finally his life becomes so miserable he had to leave parasite. In our life also we always have a choice to choose our response to circumstances and they highly govern our life.