心得_電影_I Am Legend

After watching for the fourth time on my commute bus, I decided to write something about it. Personally, I think it’s a great movie! I’ve always love movies acted by Will Smith. He’s one of my favorite actors. I am Legend is a little different form his other comedy type of works. The issue is kind of serious. The animation is pretty cool. Since I went to Manhattan in the summer of 2007, I could recognize some of the scenes in the movie. They must spend a lot of money on animation and decorating the scene. It was quite worth it anyway.

The story is about a dedicated biologist who survived from the infection of virus. Needless to say, he was the last person on Manhattan. Luckily, there was a dog to be his company. Living alone seems impossible in our modern society, he tried to manage it. There’s no one to talk to, so he talked to his dog and those human-like models. Maybe it was some kind of mental disease after being isolated for such a long time, but how can he find a psychiatrist? lol With the absence of business activities, he can only hunt for food or tried to get some canned food. However, I’m quite curious on how he get water… ha~ Anyway, he had been staying on the island trying to get the cure for the disease. Till one day, some guys overheard his radio broadcast and accidentally rescued him. This was the turning point of the movie. It is said that “If a door is closed, God will open a window for you.” One of the girl asked him to listen to the sounds from the bottom of his heart. I was quite sure he wouldn’t listen because his life was miserable before he meets them. The ending is kind of sad, but it also pointed out the universal truth that “We don’t listen!” Whenever one is facing a big challenge in life, it is rather important to calm down and listen to the voice. That voice is likely to give one some hints or inspiration in a way that one can get out from the valley of death and risen.

Thinking about being alone in a world full of danger or hostility, I couldn't help shivering. The idea of mutated viruses caused the extinction of human being has been one of the most popular themes in disaster films. There’re a number of films talk about the same issue such as 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later. I would say that they share some common ground in their themes. These films usually portray the hostility and loneliness among humans when there’s a break out of disaster. People fight for those scarce resources so that they could be the one who survive till the last minute. It is our hidden nature or instinct that connects us with those plots. What would you do if your city is infected? What do you expect the government to do?

This kind of movie always reminds me the scene of SARS in Asia not long ago. People who were infected with SARS were quarantined in hospitals. Not allowed to leave the place, the patients and medical crews must felt like being sentenced to death. As you can imagine, how tough it would be for the doctors who stayed there? The government must struggle balancing between human right and the well-being of the entire nation. That’s no easy decision, too. Fortunately, most of them made it and recovered from the deadly disease.