| In the movie I Am Legend, Will Smith plays a man who | | | | lives. It makes sense that we should naturally hate |
| lives in fear and solitude for about three years. He is | | | | Jesus Christ. We hate the Light because He exposes |
| driven by his desire to fix the biological disaster that | | | | our evil deeds for what they are. |
| seems to have wiped out all of humanity except | | | | Sin is similar to the infection in I Am Legend. Sin has |
| himself. He borrows his life-motto from Bob Marley's | | | | devastated humanity. Sin reduces people to animalistic |
| mission in life: to "Light up the Darkness." He wants to | | | | impulses. Sin inspires people to hide in shame. Apart |
| be as dedicated as Marley in bringing good, or light, into | | | | from God, people are enslaved by sin to the point that |
| the world. | | | | they can't help destroying themselves and the world |
| One obvious spiritual theme in I Am Legend is Light vs. | | | | around them. |
| Darkness. God designed us to depend on light. Light | | | | In I Am Legend, the majority of people left on earth |
| implies reconciliation, goodness and purity. We dwell in | | | | have the capacity to be productive but they are |
| the light if we have nothing to hide. Jesus even calls | | | | compelled by their infection to use their physical and |
| Himself the Light of the world. When we dwell in the | | | | mental facilities for killing, destruction and for infecting |
| Light, we gain spiritual sight. When we dwell in the Light | | | | others. The minority, the light-dwellers, risk their lives in |
| we live unhindered by all that might make us want to | | | | their attempts to save the dark-dwellers. |
| cower in the dark. | | | | Toward the end of the movie (Beware: Plot spoiler!) |
| In the movie there are two kinds of people left in the | | | | Smith comes out as a Christ-figure before the raging |
| world: Light-dwellers and dark-dwellers. Will Smith is | | | | zombies, holding up the blood that might cure them if |
| one of the few light-dwellers left in the world. The | | | | they would only accept it. Smith culminates the |
| majority however are crazed zombies who can only | | | | Christ-parallel by giving the blood away and then |
| come out at night because sunlight will burn and kill | | | | sacrificing himself in order to make the blood available |
| them. | | | | to other people. Smith also resembles Christ in that he |
| The Bible says (and everyday life confirms) that we | | | | was the only person in the whole city who was |
| would like to hide in darkness to cover up our shameful | | | | immune to this insidious infection. |