It is a pretty good movie and it definitely paint a picture of what life is like to be hopelessly isolated and completely deprived of human communication and interaction. Will Smith's portrayal of emotional instability and desperation for human contact is just brilliant.
of course couple of explanations such as how did the supposed cancer cure related to people turning into effected and mutated being, how did Robert Neville managed to survive throughout and how did he learn that those mutated being will only roam the streets at night and is vulnerable to sunlight could have given a more in-depth understanding but I suppose all of these loopholes is best left for our imagination to connect the story. The pace was just nice and there are certain moments in the movie that got me.
on another note, this movie triggered me to think hard about how human will pay all the attention to what is remaing with him or her when all else are taken away such as sam. I guess it is when all things are taken away that we start to value them the most and will probably risk our life to make sure that nothing happens to the last thing that is yet to be taken away from us.
just a thought.

This post has been edited by spartacvs: Dec 19 2007, 04:34 PM

I thought so too that there will be discussion on his choice to sacrifice his life in the end of the movie. While all of us are thinking hard and deep as to what made him to choose such path, perhaps we should look back on how determined he is in finding the cure and not letting the infection to take supremacy.

When the first flash back to the past was shown, his wife was persuading him to join his family and work out the cure from a safer distance and secured ground but his response was "This is ground zero. This is my site. I'm not letting this to happen". Clearly this shows that he chose not to leave because he had set the objective to find the cure to restore human population as the paramount priority and only to be followed by the second priority of returning to his family at the aunt Sarah's place and lastly, both these decisions were made before his wife and kid were killed in the helicopter accident. There is no reason for him to travel to the aunt's place since his wife and kid are gone and therefore, his second priority is no longer valid, which leaves him with only one primary purpose and that is to find the cure for the human race.

His purpose to live on is fulfilled when he found the cure and there is no more reason for him to continue his life.

Other reasons that pushes him to the edge of sacrificing himself is his state of mentality and emotional instability. I'm sure you guys know how strongly he believe that there is no survival colony. Remember the scene where he comes up with all the statistic of the world head count of 6 billion hit by the KV that extermintate 90% of the human population and with the remaining of them turning into darkseekers and leaving a 1% of population who are not affected by the KV and bla bla bla... [I can't remember anymore la]. I doubt he will change his mind about the survival colony since he had been trying to find life for 3 years but never seems to found any.

This is my point of view and what I believe personally of how he came to the decision of sacrificing himself. I find that other reasons posted such as his family is all gone and there is no will to live on is valid too and seriously, I think its just way difficult when all of your love ones are no longer around and with his state of mind and emotional instability, I think its just going to be "mission impossible" for him to start life all over again lo.

On another note, one of the scene in the movie that really got to me was when he walked up to the mannequin in the DVD shop to say hello. sedih gila wei. Also it was just right to cast Will Smith in as he can make something as simple as a relationship with Sam(his dog) to be so powerful. Respect!

"No Man Is An Island"

This post has been edited by spartacvs: Dec 22 2007, 03:01 AM

Wow... Is this for real? I mean the whole sequel thing?