What are the differences between machines and humans? The Terminator was science fiction action film directed by James Cameron. It was about a robot that was sent back from the future to kill a girl who would have an effect on the future of the machine. The film presented the idea of how the machines were different of humans, which are that the machines do not have any feeling and emotion. Their goal was only to succeed their mission, they would not stop until they finished it. The machine would not change their mind, and they only know what they had been told. They did not know what is good or bad. Also, we can see this in the scene when Reese, the person who came from the future, told Sarah, who would get killed by the machine, about the terminator, and the scene when the terminator got up the killed Sarah even thought he was burned in fire and was hit by the bomb. In addition, the film also presented the idea of the failure of the machine, and will bring death or disaster, even a daily using machine, which can be seen in the scene when Sarah’s friend got killed because she listen to the walkman and did not hear that the terminator was killing her boyfriend. Besides this, we can clearly notice the failure of the machine from the scene when Sarah talked to her mother on the phone without knowing that her mother was already killed and it was actually the terminator who was talking to her, so the terminator knew where Sarah was from that. Moreover, the characters in the film were presented in an interesting way. Sarah, the leading female character, showed the development through the film. She was an ordinary girl who failed to be like every other normal people in the society even though she tried to fit in, but then she was developed to be stronger and more charming girl, who gave the feeling of this girl will give the birth to the person who will destroy the machine, John Corner. Also, Reese, whom, if we compare to the western heros, could be claimed that he was different from western hero and was not a real hero even though he came to protect Sarah. He was not actually strong and talked a lot about himself, which is not normal for the western hero, and he just came back in time because he was in love with Sarah not because he was brave or so on. Furthermore, the terminator, who was presented as a killer or a villain, could be considered as a western hero because he did not talk much and aimed to finish the job because he was program to do, which he did not know what is good or bad, like the western hero…
For me, this film is one of the best sci-fi films that showed many great film techniques and story telling. It used a great special effect that best helped telling the story and created excitement and enjoyment, which was also consider huge special effect at that time, and even though the film was made a long time ago, it is still cool and fun to watch…
