That would be at odds with that whole emotional set up. You wouldn't go to great lengths to go over foxx's relationship with his daughter if he's supposed to end up losing. Plenty of movies do have the bad guy winning but that is usually supported through the tone of the film. Butler thought foxx would play by the rules, and even laughs and tells foxx that after he realizes he's done for. He's a detective and that's what they do. It's akin to people thinking the movie Joker wants you to support arthur's actions, quite the contrary.Īnd he didn't make blunders, foxx outsmarted him. Your violent rampage of revenge isn't justified just because the system sucks, that's the tone throughout the whole film. While they do set up that idea initially with his family being killed, the film literally beats you over the head that's he's "the bad guy" after he kills numerous people and foxx's innocent female coworker. You'd have to jump through some serious mental hoops to think he's the protagonist or sympathetic in anyway. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. Full circle, he thought while the final lethargy crept into his limbs. He turned and leaned against the wall while he swallowed the pills. And, abruptly, the concept came, amusing to him even in his pain.Ī coughing chuckle filled his throat. He knew he did not belong to them he knew that, like the vampires, he was anathema and black terror to be destroyed. Robert Neville looked out over the new people of the earth. So long as the end did not come with violence, so long as it did not have to be a butchery before their eyes His right hand tightened on the tiny envelope of pills. And he understood what they felt and did not hate them. He was an invisible specter who had left for evidence of his existence the bloodless bodies of their loved ones. To them he was some terrible scourge they had never seen, a scourge even worse than the disease they had come to live with. The final words of the novel is "I am legend":Ībruptly that realization joined with what he saw on their faces-awe, fear, shrinking horror-and he knew that they were afraid of him.
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