Comments on: 12-17, Monday http://richardisretired.wordpress.com/2007/12/17/12-17-monday/ An attempt to keep track of my life in retirement and back into worklife. Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:18:26 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: richardisretired http://richardisretired.wordpress.com/2007/12/17/12-17-monday/#comment-3771 richardisretired Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:13:02 +0000 http://richardisretired.wordpress.com/2007/12/17/12-17-monday/#comment-3771 Will Smith dies, his dog dies, the two other characters who we barely know and whose relationship with each other is unknown walk into a survivors' camp in New England. Why would our hero and his sympathetic companion die, leaving us with a woman and a young man we care nothing about if the message is hope? Yes Smith's death is a sacrifice of one life so the rest of us may live but I see the ending as the beginning of a long and terrible slog toward uncertain survival without living heroes. Will Smith dies, his dog dies, the two other characters who we barely know and whose relationship with each other is unknown walk into a survivors’ camp in New England.

Why would our hero and his sympathetic companion die, leaving us with a woman and a young man we care nothing about if the message is hope? Yes Smith’s death is a sacrifice of one life so the rest of us may live but I see the ending as the beginning of a long and terrible slog toward uncertain survival without living heroes.

]]> By: Kate Duva http://richardisretired.wordpress.com/2007/12/17/12-17-monday/#comment-3765 Kate Duva Sun, 13 Jan 2008 04:29:19 +0000 http://richardisretired.wordpress.com/2007/12/17/12-17-monday/#comment-3765 How could you say the ending to I AM LEGEND was hopeless? Will Smith's character left things behind that might save the world - and you gonna tell me that beautiful sweep over the hilly mountains and the village where everyone is okay is hopeless? And Bob Marley singing "Redemption Song" as the credits burst - hopeless? How could you say the ending to I AM LEGEND was hopeless? Will Smith’s character left things behind that might save the world – and you gonna tell me that beautiful sweep over the hilly mountains and the village where everyone is okay is hopeless? And Bob Marley singing “Redemption Song” as the credits burst – hopeless?

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