other important point - while his hand’s covering it up in the gif, the second one says “no expectations”
which is a theme throughout the whole movie and honestly one of my favourite details - miles feels constantly stressed under the expectations from his father, from his school, from everyone that wants him to be something so great, when all he wants to do is go back to a normal school and hang out with his friends
and his first essay is on the book great expectations, which he’s clearly struggling with, and parallels to the fact that he has no idea what to do about the great expectations in his own life - the page is blank
but his art is his escape, it always has been, he does that in secret away from prying eyes, he hides it round the city, he draws in his notebooks, and when he turns this design into a mural, it’s in abandoned tunnels where no one goes, with the help of his uncle aaron, who arguably had the same expectations and failed to live up to them - he makes his living killing people for kingpin, but he loves his nephew, and has no expectations for miles, he’s just here to encourage him
which is where miles gets bitten by the spider, and gets even more expectations
not only does he have to live up to everything he had already, but now he has to be spiderman, and its such a legacy to follow, and he doesn’t know how
all the other spider people had such expectations for him, he hears them discussing it, and that’s not something he can live up to. he’s not trying to do it his own way, he’s trying to be the previous spiderman, and it’s crushing him
and he fails that time, their great expectations are too much, he doesn’t have a solution. so they leave, expecting nothing from him anymore. and at the same time, he has the conversation with his dad through the door, where his dad apologises for putting such pressure on him, and says he just wants to see miles succeed, which he should in his own way, not by following others
it’s his lowest point in the film but it’s also the moment everything changes, because he loses all expectations
for the first time since becoming spiderman, he’s back to that mural in the tunnel, doing things his own way, no expectations
and that’s where he finds his strength, not through what other people have done before, but through his own ideas, his own art, his own self expression
he spray paints over the spiderman suit because he can’t wear that as is, he has to make it his. and when he’s on his own, without anyone else’s expectations, he turns out to be brilliant, and he’s plenty capable not just of keeping up with the others, but outshining them, finding his own place where he can be himself and that can be what saves everyone
and it works, and now everyone follows his lead - he gives peter b’s advice back to him. his dad helps him paint a mural. he’s thriving in both aspects of his life
and then he turns in that essay because he knows how it ends now - with him doing it his own way
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