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Anxiety is a monster in Sony’s new Spider-Verse short film
The new Spider-Verse short is here, and it’s terrifying.
But Sony’s new short film, The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story, from director Jarelle Dampier and writer Khaila Amazan digs a bit deeper into Miles Morales’ head to emphasize why it’s important for people to share their feelings — especially when those feelings keep you in a constant state of fight or flight. Rather than any specific supervillain, The Spider Within pits Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) against an embodiment of all the anxieties he’s been dealing with while staying on top of his grades, secretly working as a superhero, and hiding his double life from his father Jefferson (Brian Tyree Henry). But the short also highlights how, even when he’s operating as Spider-Man, Miles’ ordinary worries about keeping his grades up and not wanting to disappoint his dad are a huge part of what makes him feel as if he’s drowning in an existential sense.
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