Just imagine, the whole population of Earth is wiped out and you are the last person who somehow survived. This is what I am legend is about.
But first just think about the situation itself for a minute…everyone in the whole world (!), everyone who you have ever known is dead, but for some reason you are still alive and alone, as alone as you can be, literally. Pretty brutal picture isn’t it? I don’t think that even one person on Earth would manage to cope with this.
When I first heard about this film I was thinking about what could lead to such a disaster. We get the answer for it in the first few minutes of the movie. It was a virus, a virus called the KV (Krippin Virus). Dr Krippin was the person who found the cure cancer by manipulating a deadly virus. She described it with a very interesting example: “if we see our body as a highway and a bad person is driving very fast on it causes very much damage. But if we replace that driver with a cop we get the complete opposite result”.
So basically this is it, the cure for cancer is a manipulated virus…well I think it’s pretty obvious what followed. The virus began to evolve and killed 5.8 billion (!!) of Earth’s population. The rest became some kind of mutated beasts and also the animals, they are sensible to light and these things, I can’t really call them persons anymore, eaten up every survivor of the KV.
The films shows the life of the last survivor who is played by Will Smith. He was a colonel in the US army his family was killed during the evacuation of New York. He tried to do everything to get things under control. Actually he still does, he is looking for a cure no matter what. He is experimenting on mutated rats even though more than 3 years have past since the disaster, even though he knows he is the last survivor of KV.
The really touching and undoubtedly human act from him was to put manikins everywhere and to do as if nothing has happened. This is just a perfect example of what each and everyone of us would have done. Everything…simply everything just NOT to be alone.
He has his daughter’s dog with him and they are like brothers in arms, I think this is what describes their relation the best. I think the most touching scene is when his dog dies because she has protected him and after that he goes to a video lender and says to a manikin “ I promised to a friend I would say hello to you, hello…please say hello to me…please say hello…”. He played a role play before this everyday with that manikin, as if that thing were a real woman and he liked her but was only to shy to make the next step, but he promised Sam (the dog) he would do it tomorrow. I can’t find the words for this scene…it was simply devastating. So powerful that you could really relate to that character.
Will Smith did a remarkable job with this movie too. Everyone who hasn’t seen it yet and are interested in the topic should go see it. In the end we also get to understand why the title is what it is.
When I first heard about this film I was thinking about what could lead to such a disaster. We get the answer for it in the first few minutes of the movie. It was a virus, a virus called the KV (Krippin Virus). Dr Krippin was the person who found the cure cancer by manipulating a deadly virus. She described it with a very interesting example: “if we see our body as a highway and a bad person is driving very fast on it causes very much damage. But if we replace that driver with a cop we get the complete opposite result”.
So basically this is it, the cure for cancer is a manipulated virus…well I think it’s pretty obvious what followed. The virus began to evolve and killed 5.8 billion (!!) of Earth’s population. The rest became some kind of mutated beasts and also the animals, they are sensible to light and these things, I can’t really call them persons anymore, eaten up every survivor of the KV.
The films shows the life of the last survivor who is played by Will Smith. He was a colonel in the US army his family was killed during the evacuation of New York. He tried to do everything to get things under control. Actually he still does, he is looking for a cure no matter what. He is experimenting on mutated rats even though more than 3 years have past since the disaster, even though he knows he is the last survivor of KV.
The really touching and undoubtedly human act from him was to put manikins everywhere and to do as if nothing has happened. This is just a perfect example of what each and everyone of us would have done. Everything…simply everything just NOT to be alone.
He has his daughter’s dog with him and they are like brothers in arms, I think this is what describes their relation the best. I think the most touching scene is when his dog dies because she has protected him and after that he goes to a video lender and says to a manikin “ I promised to a friend I would say hello to you, hello…please say hello to me…please say hello…”. He played a role play before this everyday with that manikin, as if that thing were a real woman and he liked her but was only to shy to make the next step, but he promised Sam (the dog) he would do it tomorrow. I can’t find the words for this scene…it was simply devastating. So powerful that you could really relate to that character.
Will Smith did a remarkable job with this movie too. Everyone who hasn’t seen it yet and are interested in the topic should go see it. In the end we also get to understand why the title is what it is.
