Notes from an Anglo-American Man

Hancock is not your usual superhero film. In fact it’s quite the opposite; he’s a drunk, angry, and self absorbed man.

And unlike other superhero’s he doesn’t seem to care.

Now I can’t say too much without ruining the film but I can tell you that this movie is worth paying to go and see. Unlike so many Hollywood movies this one had me both laughing and feeling sad for the main character within minutes of each other.

It’s got twists and turns in it that I didn’t see coming (and I tend to see them coming a mile away). Will Smith’s performance is, as always, fantastic. And the supporting cast did a great job as well. This is a movie that doesn’t take itself too seriously at times but is always aware of where it is heading.

As far as superhero films go it’s believable (read no radioactive anything biting, exploding, and/or mutating)

woo i managed to do that in half my target only 150ish words go me!

So here I am watching a movie and suddenly out of nowhere BAM a sex scene, it has no relevance to the story, other then to maybe make us think, right these guys have sex. It does not serve the plot and to be quite frank is just boring. It’s all so pointless.

Why do people who make decent movies put this crud in with it?

Surely in today’s society if someone wants to see some breasts or a person’s ass they can find it anywhere else.

I have this feeling that we are thought to be fools by these guys in big offices with more money then sense, who are so out of touch with the modern society and the everyday person that they wouldn’t know an ordinary person if they came up and shook their hands.

Do they really think that just because it has a sex scene or some breasts in it that we will go flocking to the movie?

It’s really quite sad that we like mindless animals we all flock to them because it’s the only thing going.

I say enough is enough its time we took back the movies, its time to show these big companies that we couldn’t care less about sex in movies.

Though of course I could be wrong, maybe it’s just me who is fed up with it.

WARNING SPOILERS!!!!

So I’ve now seen I Am Legend twice, the first time I watched it, it was purely for the enjoyment of seeing a new film. The second time, I soaked in more of what the film has hidden behind its seemingly worldly story. This is of course all my own interpretation of this work of art, and as such I’m entitled to be completely wrong in guessing what the artists were going for.

First thing I want to say is something I noticed the first time round, Will Smith captures a female “dark seeker” and after doing so the male exposes himself to sunlight, now the character puts this down to completely losing all touch with its humanity, but I saw it in a different light. This is my theory about that and I will back up some of my idea with evidence of course.

I believe that the woman was the mate/partner of the male dark seeker, and that he was a de facto leader among the dark seekers. Look at the way he controls them when they attack Smith in his lab. Also I think that they were more intelligent than Smith’s character gave them credit for, they used Smith’s own trap idea against him.

Smith simply messed with the wrong dark seeker and that led to them moving Fred and him almost getting killed, and Sam being infected.

Now into the Christian stuff. This movie in my opinion is all about God helping man fix a problem that man made. There is a huge Christ analogy with Smith’s character sacrificing his life in order to secure the salvation (from the KV mutation).

The film has some great foreshadowing with the use of the butterfly, it’s a constant throughout the entire movie and it’s not until we see the tattoo on Anna’s neck. The fact that God (in her opinion) told her to turn on the radio in order for her to hear Smith’s broadcast, and to be there for when Smith needed her to save his life, the fact that she knew without a doubt that it was God who was telling her this, and that there was a survivors colony that she needed to get to; leads me to think that the makers of this movie have a strong spiritual side to them.

And the last thing I noticed that I thought was a very nice touch, is the movie is all about (this is of course an underlying plot) Smith’s character finding his faith in God again after the tragic death of his family. It is no accident that the last thing that Smith and his family did was pray to God.

All in all this is one of the best movies to come out of Hollywood (in terms of spiritual content) for a very long time, and I would recommend that you all go and see it at the cinema if you haven’t already, or buy it on DVD when it comes out. I know it will be a part of my collection as soon as it’s available.