12-27-2007, 02:52 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-27-2007, 02:54 PM by [wcip]Angel.)
The movie deserves a plus for not being asinine, which every movie out there seems to be at the moment.
I'm not going to discuss the elements already mentioned, but what I *did* enjoy, was the small bits and pieces of psychology in Will Smith's character. Obviously, being a scientist and a top military guy, he's presented as an intelligent individual. The fact that he recognises and pre-empts the various stages of psychological isolation by infusing non-human life with human qualities (the dog, the mannequins), and thus makes his everyday life a bit easier to cope with, was laudible. Starving off impending insanity from being isolated and alone, by conversing with the dummies and the dog, and thus attributing them human characterstics, was a nice touch in my opinion.
Of course, it's open to debate whether he went a little mad *before* or *after* he started talking to the dummies...
I'm not going to discuss the elements already mentioned, but what I *did* enjoy, was the small bits and pieces of psychology in Will Smith's character. Obviously, being a scientist and a top military guy, he's presented as an intelligent individual. The fact that he recognises and pre-empts the various stages of psychological isolation by infusing non-human life with human qualities (the dog, the mannequins), and thus makes his everyday life a bit easier to cope with, was laudible. Starving off impending insanity from being isolated and alone, by conversing with the dummies and the dog, and thus attributing them human characterstics, was a nice touch in my opinion.
Of course, it's open to debate whether he went a little mad *before* or *after* he started talking to the dummies...
