• As the war in Ukraine causes gas prices to explode, on Facebook, a photo of Will Smith in front of the exorbitant prices of a gas station is compared with a snapshot where the price is even higher.

  • Has reality surpassed fiction?

  • Released at the end of 2007,

    I am a legend

    is a premonitory work in more ways than one

In the film

I Am Legend

, Will Smith plays a lone hero, a virologist who faces a devastating pandemic after a cancer vaccine leaks from a lab, spreading and destroying humanity.

Made in 2007, this film already had many premonitory aspects with the Covid-19 pandemic which has been raging on the planet for more than two years.

Two disturbing images

But the resemblance between the film and reality does not end there.

On several Facebook publications has been circulating for a few days, an intriguing image taken from this film, just as surprising as it is premonitory.

We see the actor in a service station where the prices displayed are exorbitant and reach $ 6.63 per gallon of gasoline.

In parallel, a recent photo shows a gas station, in California, where the prices indicated exceed those of the film and climb this time up to $6.71, an all-time high.

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Is the parallel justified?

Yes: as we can see in the trailer for the film (at 1'), the character played by Will Smith crosses a desolate and apocalyptic city to a gas station to pump some leftover gasoline into a jerrycan... On its back, we find the prices that correspond to those of viral publications.

As for the photo of the California station, the same billboard was immortalized by AFP photographer Frederic J. Brown, as you can see in the illustration of this article or on other d French information.

The film with Will Smith therefore had nothing unreal or fictional about it.

All the spectators had to do was wait for the predictions of this Hollywood science fiction film to come true.

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