Monday, July 21, 2008

I am Legend

Starring Will Smith, this was probably one of the most thought provoking scary movie I had seen in recent times. Will Smith is a lone survivor after a cancer vaccination gone wrong. The rest of the people had been vaccinated or infected by each other to live an existence of a wild brute, that were afraid of the dark and thrived on violent and propagation of their own disease.
Smith lived with his dog and conducted experiments to find the cure, in which he was unsuccessful so far. He would go on a hunt everyday to find supplies to survive. From time to time, his past will be shown.
After the discovery of a cure for cancer, vaccination for cancer became popular and everyone started to get it. However, the strain started developing other kinds of symptoms and people started getting more aggressive and violent and started losing their sanity.
During one of his hunts, he loses his dog to the savages and becomes desperate to kill himself and get a revenge, but gets knocked out and saved by a woman and a boy. Shocked to find another and refusing to believe that there is a safe human camp away from the island, he tries to fight away the savages, who are now on his trail, since his saviours forgot to clean off their scent.
In the last few moments, he finds out that one of his experiments was successful and he sends this cure with the woman and boy, while he dies in a blast. The movie ends with the woman and the boy reaching the ‘promised land’.
An interesting movie and thought, but it was scary to think what would happen, if indeed all that was true. Our society is very interested in having vaccines for every possible disease and do not hesitate in introducing viral strands in us, for example, with the flu. Either way, a good movie to watch.

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