Kai, The Informologist

The only alive and good friend of Robert (Will Smith) is Sam, or Samantha as it was revealed later.

Spoiler Warning – general idea of the movie revealed

I enjoyed a little over 100 minutes of close proximate intensity with “I Am Legend”. It has been awhile since I last caught a thriller, not for other reasons, simply because I don’t like to be thrilled for no good reason and having the memories imprinted in mind for several days/weeks to come. But after eyeing the movie for quite a while now, I couldn’t let it be missed.

The movie is surreal in a yet realistic sense. It’s a thriller, yet it’s not terrifying because of the mutants but the possibilities of us becoming them, which is worse. It brings intriguing thoughts about nature and man-made. The cures for epidemic disease that we are working so hard on today, when actually found, might just turn back on us. My friend commented after the movie that it is a bad movie, not for anything else, but for the reality of it, that it makes people feel gloomy.

Interestingly, I felt the central theme and the main thesis of the movie only started when Will Smith shouted back at Anna saying – “There is No God”, which somewhat contradicts with what he had said earlier when Anna said “Oh, my God”, and he replied – “God did not do this, we did.” And hence, God was involved.

I know I’m sounding kinda Christian here on a movie of this genre, but thinking about it, there was a scene where Will Smith treaded his way into a dark building in searching of his dog – Sam, he stepped onto piles and piles of cash, but nobody was caring for any of it. It reminds me of a bible verse that talks about how money is perishable compared to the treasure in heaven (if you remember, please remind me!). Wealth of money that is seemingly essential in our world today, has proves otherwise in situation like this on ‘I Am Legend’.

In the last scene, Anna did found what she had described as something she heard from God – a survivor’s colony.

Yes, this is a thriller about the mutants, or even the possibility of having them, with intensity that probably strikes one throughout the movie. Somehow however, there seems to be a calm spot amidst all these chaos and havoc.

It’s like, ‘a small voice of God’.
That, I feel should shake you more than the gazillions of mutants jumping onto you.

There is God, even at times of despair. For he said:

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil;
For You are with me;
Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. – Psalm 23:4 (New King James Version)

“Bringing light to darkness.”

I’m not sure how to recommend this movie, my roommate didn’t like it, felt its just another remake of “Resident Evil” or “28 days later”. I haven’t watched the latter, but unlike “Resident Evil”, “I Am Legend” talks about isolation, friendship and so many factors of uncertainty rather than just actions. I really like it though.

On a side note, great acting by Will Smith, he has definitely became a skilled actor following performance such as on “Pursuit of Happyness”.