>>8994507

TY Baker!!!

I have something I wanted to share. Post Qanon, going back and watching some movies takes on a whole new meaning. Fam and I do pizza and movie night nearly every week. We do this because I'm the only Qanon in the house, and anon needs some normalcy; even if it means watching shit films from Disney on a super fucking rare occasion.

Reason for this post? Pic related is a scene near the ending of the movie adaptation of "I Am Legend", starring Will Smith. In this film, the main character has sequestered himself in "Ground Zero" of a virus outbreak that is causing all humans to turn into zombie/vampire hybrid thingies. His main objective is to find a cure, and he's tested hundreds, possibly thousands of animal and human subjects in his search. Key takeaways:

1. There's a recurring theme of an "All AM Station Broadcast" where he is telling anyone that might be out there that he can provide food, and shelter to those seeking help.

2. Someone eventually answers this call, but only after he actually attempts suicide by going out at night to seek vengeance for losing his pet dog Samantha.

3. Something special about certain people's blood (the main character, specifically) makes very few immune to the outbreak.

4. The book, as I'm reading the "cliff notes", is waaaaaaaay different from the movie.

As the relationship between Neville and Anna (rapidly) develops, we learn what their dynamic is.

Robert Neville, the main character, has been isolated for 3 years. Anna and her Son, Ethan, overhear Neville's recurring radio message. Ironically, they come to his rescue.

At one point in their dialogue, Anna expresses to Neville that she came to him, and plans to continue her journey to Vermont (where a colony of humans is surviving) because she can "hear God" telling her what to do.

"If we listen, we can hear God's plan…"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHhFJz-qJxU

>In the book, however, she's actually a part of the "new society vampires" that kill the really feral fucking vampires that are killing everything. She's a vampire with human intellect intact.

In that back and forth dialogue, Neville presents his real-world experienced opinion on God's involvement in the current crisis. To add to that, though, he does credit mankind with causing the fucking problem which absolves "God" of responsibility, while simultaneously "disproving" God in the context of the statement.

If you think about the statements separate from one another, it makes some sense from both angles; that is, of course, until you realize the film adaptation is based on a book that shows that the new vamps are actually a "evolution" of mankind, and the "in between" of humans and the really fucked up feral vamps. Neither one of them is necessarily wrong in the movie's perspective. From the book's perspective, this dude's losing his ass in the philosophical realm of things.

>Dramatic pause

So here's why I typed up this long-assed post. I saw 2 somethings that I never noticed before. This was my 3rd time watching the film, and I usually pride myself on noticing the obscure shit. I was a bit taken aback after this, actually:

1. In Neville's home, he has paintings by Vincent Van Gogh all over the fucking place. Let me just show you what that likely means inasmuch as a film adaptation of the book:

>Yasmeen Cooper and Mark Agius have suggested that Van Gogh suffered from schizoaffective disorder; bipolar type, due to his bouts of psychosis, mania, and major depression.

Well, that certainly leaves a metric shit ton of thoughts to think and unpack about Neville's state of psychosis, doesn't it?

I actually paused the movie to point this out to my oldest (he's an art kid, and his Van Gogh rendition of Starry Night is impressive, considering he did it at the age of 5). After I made that statement, He looked at me, and made the comment "yeah… perhaps all this is in his head".

Wife anon lost her marbles:

"Did you ever read the book? You should read the book. The book doesn't make it look like that at all.."

>more on that later

1. The pic related. Now, here's why pic related bothers the fuck out of this anon.

Her character literally'' represents "the Will of God in the movie. Take a long, hard look at that tattoo:

This anon is scratching his head. Oh, and what happened in the book version while wifeanon was telling me I was full of shit? Turns out, in the book, Neville falls for the chick and she's part of the "new society". A day walking vamp that was out killing the feral vamps to clean up the place.