Wednesday, April 9, 2008

ANGELS&DEMONS

The incredibly intriguing and fast paced novel "Angels and Demons", has me in a typhoon of thoughts circling one question; What is the truth about the universe and what equation are we a result of? At CERN, a scientific community dedicated to finding technology to further us as a human race, a question is answered that man has asked himself since the begining of time. Antimatter, the opposite of matter, is discovered. This product cannot be created on Earth, "My father set out to do something no one has ever had the technology to do, he created a universe from nothing at all." Unfortuetly the scientific breakthrough has much conflict with religous practices. However, the creator of universe had one goal in mind, to link religion to science. As the book continues I will find the answers to this conflict.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Movie Review- I AM LEGEND

"I am Legend" is an intriguing and fast paced movie that constantly keeps the viewer's attention. In the year 2009 the cure for cancer is believed to be found, however it is in fact an extremely hazardous biochemical disease that reverses human evolution. Humans lose complete control of their normal survival senses to a point they can't go near sunlight. The main character, Robert Neville(Will Smith), is a military scientist who is supposedly the lone survivor of the disease from 3 years previous. Neville's only ambition is to find the antidote to the horrible man made catastrophe. The only thing he has to keep him from breaking to the point of insanity is his dog Sam. Though the film has a very interesting plot that keeps the viewer attached to philosophical thoughts of how and when the end of mankind will be? The director constantly puts Dr.Neville in suspenseful scenes where he faces the human turned zombies in extremely tense situations, which keeps the viewer on the edge of his or her seat. Roberts character is very absorbing as you get into his head of how horrible his day to day life is. At his point of destruction, after losing Sam, he tries to commit suicide and another survivor saves him which keeps him from deteriorating into an insane mess. Nearing the end of the movie the zombies discover where Neville and the other two survivors are living and they arre forced to retreat to his lab where he finds he has discovered the cure to the man made disease. The infected people attack Robert and the survivors as he frantically tries to calm the zombies down to give them the antidote. He has no choice but to give the cure to the other two and blow up the infected people along with himself. The antidote eventually makes it to a military enforced safe ground for the few survivors that are left on planet Earth. "I am legend" is unfortunately one of 2007's most underrated and unappreciated films.