Have you ever imagine, living in a solitary condition, no one else besides you and you have to survive your live with any means necessary? I bet you would never have a gut to even imagining that. This situation is greatly depicted in Will Smith’s movie, “I am Legend”, where he has to live alone after the entire town of New York (or even the whole world) has been severely infected by lethal virus which causes the infected people got mad and become a cannibal. Actually, Will is not all alone in the real sense because he is surrounded by infected people who only show up at night (this is the effect of virus which causes human body could no longer bear the sunlight).

Actually I just never care about the infected people in the story. I just got more attention on how Will spends his day only with his dog, does everyday routine with everything must be on schedule in order to keep his sanity, and even he has to hunt for food (although some foods are ready in his refrigerator). However, this is makes me wonder in this movie (the foods). In my common sense, there is impossible for Will to keep the food all the time in the refrigerator; how long will the food survive from deterioration, and how long has Will been in solitary. I guess that would be silly questions in a movie perspective. Everything in the movies has already been set in order to suit the needs of the director and the script writer.

Anyway… with all its pro and cons, I guess this movie can give me a new perspective in finding the true meaning of human life, especially human as a social creature after watching how stressful was Will on that movie …..

Movie Title: I am Legend
Category: Action/Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Thriller, Adaptation and Remake
Directed by Francis Lawrence
Produced by Akiva Goldsman, David Heyman, Erwin Stoff
Written by: Akiva Goldsman, Mark Protosevich
Novel:Richard Matheson
Starring Will Smith
Music by James Newton Howard
Cinematography Andrew Lesnie
Editing by Wayne Wahrman
Distributed by Warner Bros. Village Roadshow
Release date(s) December 14, 2007
Running time 100 min.
Country United States
Language English
Budget US $150 million (est.)
Gross revenue $557,420,893

Picture taken from: Wikipedia