Kendra and I watched the latest Will Smith flick tonight and we were not disappointed, okay maybe just a little bit. The film is inventive, creepy, choppy (camera work...on purpose), and intellectual, at least in my humble opinion. The film basically shows the life of a lone survivor living in New York City. Why does every film (maybe I'm exaggerating) have to be in the Big Apple?! Will Smith's character is all alone, except for his dog. And the world...the half-dead, vampire-like, can't be out in the sun, rabies infected people...are out to get him...and his "little dog too." His mission is to stay there and figure out a cure for the very creatures out to get him. Toward the end of the film (spoiler warning), he discovers two things, that he's not alone and that he has found the cure.
Many times in the Christian life, we feel like we are all alone and that the world is out to get us. We are not alone. And while the world (in a spiritual sense) is out to get us, we don't have to face it alone. Remember that the next time you see a mannequin. Don't understand, I guess you'll have to watch the film.
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I really dug the film too. I am a Will Smith fan. He seems to find himself in a lot of these sci-fi thrillers. I truly appreciated the no-sex theme throughout the film. they had the opportunity to do that several times and chose to stick with the plot and not the world. See if you can find the movie The Omega man with Charlton Heston. It is a 60's version of the same thing.
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