The monster in the movie Terminator Salvation is the
artificial intelligence that ran a military defense program called Skynet. Skynet became aware and decided humanity
needed to be terminated, and so terminator machines were built. The terminator named Marcus doesn’t know he
is a terminator because he is so human-like.
He has a metal skeleton covered in human flesh and a beating heart. Though he is a terminator, Marcus has a soul. He is on the boundary between human and
machine. He shows kindness, curiosity,
and many other emotions. He has a strong
heart and is willing to sacrifice it to save the life of a human, but it is
questionable whether he is programmed to bring Kyle Reese and John Connor to
Skynet to die. His characteristics
confirm what a human is and show human fears of spies and people infiltrating secure
compounds in times of war. These are legitimate
fears as the U.S. was in a war at the time the movie was made.
The two biggest fears humans have of technology are robots becoming
more intelligent than humans and not being able to differentiate between human
and machine. These fears are present in
R.U.R. and are still present today, as shown by the movie.
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