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I Am Legend: Awakening - Story 4: Death is a Gift

2008 · 6 min

A quiet, desolate vignette that settles over you like early-morning stillness, heavy with loss and finality.

Directed by
Ian Kirby
Genres
Animation, Science fiction, Drama
Overview
This is one of the four "animated comics" taking place in the same universe as the film "I Am Legend". In Hong Kong, China, Jinghua Xu sits in her apartment at dawn, writing a note. She then leaves her apartment building, and goes out into the desolate ruins of a lifeless Hong Kong.

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Directed by
Ian Kirby
Genres
Animation, Science fiction, Drama
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How it feels

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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • loneliness
  • isolation
  • death
  • grief
  • survival
Places
  • big city
Era
near-future
Audience
adult
Form
  • animated
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror4
Humour0
Realism6
Romance0
Tension5
Darkness8
Complexity3
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
animation, science fiction, drama
Directed by
Ian Kirby
Runtime
6 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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