The perfect killing's desire

Rating: 8/10 (2 December 2019)

Terminator represents the fundamental fear of sci-fi era: the war between men and machines and the victory of robots. With a dynamic, fluid, pop style (wonderful electronic soundtrack), and atmosphere of anxiety due to the darkness, Cameron manages to create the most terrible menace for men about technology: a Terminator, a machine come from the future to destroy humans. And the machine can't be dropped: the difference from humans is properly in its incapacity to understand emotion and to understand limits; if it's created for destroy, if it understands just the obligation to live better (and for this also killing creators, seen as weak and imperfect), nothing can't defeat it, and the last scene, with the Termination disposed to fight until it can reveals this strange creepy strength that comes not from willing but from a mechanical rationality and program. A cult for sci-fi world, but also in its pop nature full f philosophical contents.