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The movie I Am Legend, starring Will Smith – Spiritual Themes
Any zombie movie has the potential to illustrate the ugliness of sin. Zombies are former pleasant, hardworking, honest, most people turn into animals, bloodthirsty goons. Apparently, nobody has the potential to be a zombie. Resident Evil, for example, explains zombification through latent brain waves that give the body enough energy to keep walking around, with the only exception as senseless beasts. According to Resident Evil, unrestricted people become monsters.
Zombie movies are ideal for scaring people because it shows us a world gone wrong everyday. People who thought they could trust now start climbing the larynx with the teeth.
I Am Legend does a particularly good job in demonstrating the spiritual implications of such a biological disaster. There are tips throughout the movie that keep God at the forefront of the plot.
(Warning: The following paragraphs might spoil the plot of the film if I've never seen!)
In the beginning of the movie, Will Smith defends God's reputation, saying that the people of this disaster tax themselves. Later, after he suffered several years of solitude and fear in a civilization devoid of civilized people, struggle with this conviction.
Towards the end of the film a young Cuban woman saves her life and claims that God guided to look only at the time. She goes on about how, if only to listen, let's hear God's voice. Outside the pent-up frustration from years of fruitless work, Smith yells to the woman that God does not exist. Before the end of the film, however, Smith thinks about the words of the young and comes again. In fact, his faith in the divine plan God is so dramatically restored sacrifices his life so that women can escape with his son and cure the disease.
It is realistic that a man in a position Smith's struggle with his faith. The fact that considerable experience testing and, finally, to strengthen their faith makes the whole ordeal worthwhile.
A recurrent theme is, "Where is God when bad things happen? "The answer is I Am Legend," We should not blame God for our mistakes. "There are posters in the deserted city scenes that say "God still loves us, not love?" Another poster portrays the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo, except when the hand of the man who used to be, going back to God, there is a gun pointing back to God.
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