I Am Legend Ideology

The postapocalyptic science-fiction horror film “I am Legend” displays the story of virologist Robert Neville who appears to be the only survivor of a dissemination of a virus that either kills humans or turns them into mutants. The latter are unable to survive in daylight and haunt for human blood at night. The virus was originally created to cure cancer. Neville lost his family through the apocalypse and lives with his dog, Sam. One day both are attacked and Neville is forced to shoot Sam because he got infected through a bite from a mutant. Due to this, Neville hands himself over to the mutants and tries to commit suicide but gets rescued by two immune survivors who heard his broadcasts. Before, Neville traps a mutant and tries to cure it. When he finally is successful, the mutants attack the three of them in Neville's house. Surprisingly, the mutants aim was not to obtain the cure but rather to free their lost mutant companion on which Neville was testing the cure. Hence, Neville apologizes and gives the female mutant back to the group of mutants which therefore leaves. Neville and the two survivors take the cure and hit the road towards a suvivor's camp in Vermont.
The ideology behind this plot is the introduction of a new species of zombies
Nevertheless, the original ending supports the idea of mutants not being a dehumanized pack of creatures but rather an animalistic group of humans that also embodies the usual features of a mutant which are: desire for bloodlust, uncontrolled killing, and uncivilized behaviour. The one human feature that was not killed by the virus is feelings. Furhtermore, the ending suggests that mutants and humans can live next to each other in the same world through