The first time I heard about "I Am Legend", it was strongly given to me by my classmate Amway, who said that this is a classic and good-looking zombie film, and as a zombie fan, I found this movie in minutes. In fact, this movie does not have a large production cost, but the whole movie is supported by a person and a dog, which has become the biggest highlight of this film. I Am Legend is a 2007 apocalyptic science fiction film directed by Francis Lawrence and co-starring Will Smith, Alice Braga and Sally Richardson.
The film is mainly about the 2012 human medicine invented a new virus that can cure cancer, but the virus mutated and turned infected humans into living zombies. A large-scale virus suddenly erupts, spreading so fast that almost no one can stop it, no one knows where the terrible source of the virus began, only that it is unstoppable, irreversible, incurable, and most importantly, it is artificially created. Humanity was eventually crushed by the virus, and former military virologist Rob Nefer (Will Smith) became the only survivor of New York City because of the natural antibodies in his body that were not infected, and even thought that he was the only surviving human in the world.
When the virus swept through the city, Colonel Robert Neville anxiously sent his wife Zoe and 7-year-old daughter Mary out of the city in a helicopter, only to witness their deaths in front of them. Death may be the best option at such times, for those who are infected but not dead have their bodies mutated and become a terrible creature, inhabiting the darkness and shadows beneath the city, hiding from the sun—they have the most primitive desire for fresh blood and flesh.
New York became a dead city, and Robert was the only human being left—somehow his blood was born immune to the virus. He had to endure loneliness if he wanted to survive, and the experience of begging for a living in the army, which helped him choose the way he lived in the abandoned city, was completely systematic, and he had to insist on a lot of physical training every day, and he also had to constantly send out radio waves calling for help or finding survivors like himself. Robert was a very disciplined man, otherwise normal people could go crazy in such an extremely lonely situation. The only one still fighting robert is his most loyal companion, Sam, a German Shepherd. During the day, Robert took Sam out in search of life-sustaining supplies, then to the laboratory to do research and radio waves; at night, he locked himself in a fortress-like building and watched the monsters "forage" in the streets of the city.
In addition to doing the same dutifully every day, Robert enjoyed complete freedom in the "empty city": he could drive his sports car through the streets; play golf on fighter jets; decorate his fortress with priceless jewelry, and so on, and even the busiest commercial street in the city center has now become Robert's own "back garden". He found a way to live in the loneliness of the last days, and although he lacked communication with people, he chose to do what he liked to pass the so-called time.
In an operation deep into the mutant's lair, it should be the place that gave me the deepest insight. Although they have mutated, they still have feelings, and they live in this world in another barbaric and pure way, just like humans are to animals, they are still life. When his partner Sam died, I felt Robert's deep trepidation, after all, it was his only companion, and if he lost it, it would be the real loneliness that came.
What will you do when the real end times come and you are the only one left in the world? This is really something worth pondering, when you find yourself capable, it is better to tell yourself and live a legend. There is also loneliness in life, just like what Teacher Jiong said, to enjoy loneliness, do you think?