Wednesday, January 7, 2009

"I Am Legend"

Will Smith is immune to a disease that wiped out humanity. He is trying to find a cure-he was an army doctor before the disease, now a survivor and still working.

A couple more survivors show up. One claims to have been guided by God. Will Smith comments that God didn't do this, man did. Later, in a fit of anger, his true feelings surface, he doesn't believe God exists. But then he finds redemption.

The movie was dark (wiping out humanity movies usually are). But this was higher budget, more thoughtful, and much better acted then the fare I usually watch on Sci-Fi. And I thought they treated the theological aspect pretty well.

It made me think, how much of the population of the earth really needs to survive some human-made disaster and still exist as the children of God? Will Christ come back to the 6 or 7 or 8 billion of us, or to 1% who survive a plague, some 12 million? Or will it be even less?

We are supposed to be the stewards of the earth. Here is one image of what could happen if we do it really badly!