![]() ![]() He’s developed a system for searching apartments and stores for supplies, then marking each off on a block-by-block map. Until now, he’s been the only sentient being in sight, accompanied everywhere by his faithful German shepherd Sam, keeping fit on his treadmill and keeping track of what he calls “his” site, the city left to him. The clash with Alpha Male upturns the film’s preceding focus on a Neville-only present. Neville upside down serves as apt metaphor for his and the film’s new situation. As Neville gapes and writhes, the movie arrives at a turning point: now the human is not the only one devising traps and making plans. ![]() ![]() This monstrous “Alpha Male,” embodied pre-digitization by Dash Mihok, has here evolved beyond mere grunting, hunting, and flesh-ripping, in order to rig a snare, complete with ingenious bait, to flip Smith’s Robert Neville into the air by a rope around his ankle. The plot point that puts him there involves his designated enemy, a Gollumized “dark-seeker,” a human made insane, very speedy, and cannibalistic by a supposed cancer vaccine. About halfway through I Am Legend, Will Smith is hanging upside down. ![]()
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