A Night at the movies

Last night my uncle and I went out to see a movie. I don't see too many up in NY but I do really like movies - well, some movies, anyway. Read on.

We went to see "I Am a Legend," with Will Smith starring as the main character in the story (I forget his name though). Did I like it? It's hard to say whether I liked it because I am actually pretty conflicted. Will Smith acted very well indeed, even though I certainly don't like most of his movies (and they're all the same! Independence Day and Men in Black and Men in Black II are all about aliens!) and this one would have been no exemption except for one thing: the ending.

I don't want to give too much away but basically Will Smith sacrifices himself in order to save a girl and her little brother from the zombies and then also to save the rest of humanity because they're the only ones who can bring the cure he made to the rest of the humans. Dying to save humanity. Hmm sound familiar? I don't know if the film maker even realized what he was doing though because the rest of the film wasn't very Christian at all, there were lots of guns and violence and Will Smith even says there's no such thing as God!

I'd say there is a very good chance that he didn't even realize how Christian the ending of the movie was...this is an example of how Christ works his way into all facets and aspects of day to day life, even in atheistic movies like this one!

So I'm not sure whether I liked the movie or not, because mostly it was anti-Christian because of saying negative things about God, which is of course a sin, but then also there was (maybe unintended??) Christian symbolism at the end. Does that make up for it?

-Dirk