The Annecy Festival premiered this week a short film that has everything to attract our attention.
What’s better than horror cinema AND animation For materialize a mind tortured by weakened mental health?
A dive into the nightmare of anguish
You Spider inside : A Spider-Verse story stage Miles Morales in a frame physical and mental very different from what we have seen in the explosive and colorful Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse AND Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.
Don’t expect to find the endless worlds of the metaverse, the frantic racing through the city and the humor that permeates the two features. The spider inside dedicate his 7 minutes to his character Miles Morales and the consequences of his great responsibilities their physical and mental health.
The short follows Miles Morales on his way home. His father offers him to watch horror films: the young man refuses the invitation and goes to lock himself in his room. He is then attacked stressful and traumatic imagesborn of these different adventures.
The hero gradually slips into it an anxiety attackthen inside inside a sleep paralysis. See your own silhouette with yellow eyes carve out and make his way to his bed… As the nightmarish visions multiply and the film turns into horrorMiles wakes up and joins his father, determined to do so talk to him about these anxieties that gnaw at him.
In addition to this tantalizing synopsis, Sony has unveiled a first image from the film.
Two men, black, talking about mental health
” Post the pandemic, we all have traumas to work through », director Jarelle Dampier told the audience during the preview in Annecy. The latter worked as part of a mentoring program aimed at highlighting the creations by people who are underrepresented in the industry. The film was conceived over several months, parallel to the production ofOn the other side of the Ragnoverse.
During the screening of the film, the director expressed his desire to see the theme of anxiety placed at the center of the stories we are told: ” I needed to bring mental health to the fore. I wanted to hear Miles’ pain from within. Jarelle Dampier also highlighted his choice to play Miles’ father, rather than his mother, or both parents, as is often the case in On the other side of the Ragnoverse :
“It is rare in a film to stage a conversation about mental health between two menFurthermore two black men. »
Self On the other side of the Ragnoverse is still in programming, we don’t know for the moment if the short film will be released in France…
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Source: Madmoizelle
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