As the boy—Peter—ventures around the secretive room, hinted by the non-diegetic eerie music, his father picked him up and hurried outside for an unknown cause, in which the camera pans away into foreshadowing a mysterious tube with a spider inside.
After his father speaks his stern farewells, "be good", Peter is then left behind by his parents with a long game of hide and seek, with his only Uncle Ben and Aunt May. This gloomy medium shot with its dim lighting interprets Peter's feelings, and it shows how even as cold as his father is, there is still a strong bond between the two.
An establishing shot is then used to introduce the current timeline outside their house, showing Peter all grown up and living with Uncle Ben and Aunt May. Peter is now in high-school. During classes, the shy glimpses and soft emotions hint his feelings toward Gwen Stacy, who saved him from being bullied further.
He got home from school, bruised from the punches and kicks he got from Flash the bully, and tried hiding it from Aunt May. Uncle Ben distracts her away from noticing his injuries by taking him away shown in the cut scene of them in the basement.
As Peter looks deeper through the dark space, he slid his hands at the slit of the box as his fingertips bumped into pictures, files, and other belongings of his parents. The scene gets personal as these objects are the only things that connects him and his parents.
Cut scene to the mise-en-scene of his very messy room. His door had a handmade automatic lock, implying how intelligent he is in robotics and science. His floor is filled with what seems like junk, but is actually scraps of his other projects. Uncle Ben knocked. He had a talk with Peter, allowing freedom for him to find out more about his parents. This scene is mostly shot with both characters in the same frame, making it personal and emotional for the audience.
Peter decided to take a deep research about his parents after his confrontation of his parents' whereabouts shown in a POV shot of a monitor close-up. He finds out that his parents worked in Oscorp, marked by the alarming red symbols.
Peter went in a convention to find out more, and claimed to be a student who came to visit with someone's ID card, while a comedically shot scene of the actual owner is being dragged away. He also finds out Gwen works as the tour leader in the same day.
He is then introduced to the charismatic and respected Dr. Curtis, the main scientist of the cell-regeneration project.
As the tour goes on, he accidently bumped into a mysterious man in black, dropping the case files in his hand. Peter apologizes and stumbled over the same red symbol from his research. He hesitated to give the file back as it is snatched suspiciously.
Peter began to wonder around the building, hand-picking security locks to access a door (which shows more of his smarts) labelled with the reoccurring red symbols. He discovered a fascinating blue room with advanced machinery. He hovered over to the one webbing spiders and got rained of tickly spiders. The actor shook his body and cringed in disgust, making us, the audience, feel the same.
He then called it a day, returned his fake ID to Gwen Stacy, and in a close-up shot, the camera is zoomed on his neck, which got bitten by a spider from the lab. He heads home by the train, as flashing shots and the wild distortion in the editing gives us his point of view of the spider-bite effects. He wakes up from a single drip of water and jumped into the ceilings of the train. He accidently tore a woman's shirt off with his abnormally sticky hands, implied as comedy, which I took personally as it has no other purpose but to sexualize the woman, as she is wearing bright red bra in the cool-palette background which emphasizes the action. Afterwards, he unconsciously ripped a metal pole off. his scene is intended to show his sudden super powers and is the beginning of it all.
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