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Originally Posted by Pirate
I was going to go through and answer some of these questions, but, the fact of the matter is the film isn’t very clever and is a terrible adaptation (if you can even call it that) of the book. So, why bother? Just go buy the book, read it, and then shed a single tear for it’ll probably be 10 years before we see another adaptation.
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Because I, for one, would find your take on my observations of the film interesting.
I agree that he should/could have been more freaked out by the mom and son's appearance into his world. Heck, from what spoliers I've avoided all these years about the story, for some reason I was assuming those 2 were aliens (?! boy was I wrong in remembering what people had been alluding to with this old story) and told my wife not to necessarily believe what Neville was seeing at the breakfast table.
I think the one man being alone (
insane?) with everyone else dead angle was more interesting cinematically than him actually being gifted with a cure for the
(unseen and unknown to that point) last stragglers of humanity.