I Am Legend Analysis

Whether regarded by viewers as the worse or greatest movie to date, the “I Am Legend” movie in my opinion addresses numerous social issues that we as a society face and should be more aware of in today’s era. According to Imdb.com, “The ‘I Am Legend’ movie starring renowned actor Will Smith focusses on “a scientist named Robert Neville who is incapable of stopping the horrible virus once created to cure cancer. At first, the virus looked promising and was given to cancer patients to treat their disease but few years down the line it transformed into a plague which killed most of the people on earth or turned them into zombies. Neville is the only unaffected human survivor in New York and the world, for many years he has been sending out daily
(The Legend of Disorder)”. The other article I will be using in this essay to examine the “I Am legend” movie is called “Alienating identification: Black identity in The Brother from Another Planet and I Am Legend,” it basically “argues that the film act as a valuable testing ground for theories of identity as the creation of alienating worlds reveals the play of alienation and identification at work in the recent history of race and representation (Alienating Identification)”. Through the anger and hope expressed in Richard Matheson’s movie “I Am Legend,” Matheson uses the element Protagonist and social issues such as skills and classification to demonstrate to his audience (us) how films can be s relatable to the social issues we face in today’s
The first message in the movie is about humans and socializing, Will smith shows us that without other humans on earth for us to socialize with, we will slowly start to become miserable and start finding companionship in animals and anything else that looks alive in our eyes. That’s a valid point because I couldn’t imagine not being able to socialize with my friends and family, that’s how people start talking to themselves and that’s also how madness starts. Socializing is very important even though technology these days makes it difficult for us to get out of the house. But technology gets tiring after a while and all one wants to do is talk to their friends and gossip. Another message in the movie that I founded very interesting was the value of being persistent. Robert Neville didn’t have to be persistent as he was about finding a cure to help those diseased individuals, he could have given up and been discouraged after numerous failed attempts at finding other un-infected like himself to help him find a cure. People should not give up on their passion because of somebody or because of the obstacles in their lives, there is always going to be something that will try and discourage them from doing something good, but only the strong survive.
Lastly, the movie “I Am Legend” reminded me (the viewer) so much about the social issues we deal with in today’s