Terminator 2-Humanity in the Future of Science and Technology

Coralie 2022-03-22 09:01:02

What do you think of high technology? Does it have more advantages than disadvantages or disadvantages more than advantages? As a student of the 21st century, I have encountered more than one or two questions in Chinese or English exams. It turned out that I had to answer this question as it was convenient to explain it, as long as I could get points, until the movie gave me some guidance. The first time I watched this film three or four years ago, I suddenly felt cold, domineering, and hard on Arnold. The heroine went from an ordinary woman in the first part to a sturdy female man in the second part. The role changes, the hot fighting scenes, the tense plot, the tragic and heroic ending and the highly infectious lines are unforgettable, but in terms of ideological connotation, I thought it was just a visual popcorn movie. A few years later, when I watched it again due to the dullness of amateur pastimes and the need for the collision of metallic textures, I found that the idea of ​​the film is not excessively described as "great". The birth of robots in the film and their consequences tell us that some scientific research results that have brought us fame and fortune have finally become our "terminators." Such themes have been followed by other science fiction films in the next few decades, such as "Battle of the Apes", "Rise of the Apes", "Iron Man"...It can be said that the "Terminator" series of movies created such themes. I think it is a precedent for movies. I think this theme can be called a scientific crisis. It has become the mainstream in both European and American film circles and social value systems. It is a pity that it does not fit in in China. Our great generation leader Comrade Deng Xiaoping once pointed out: Science and technology are the primary productive forces, and we are now enjoying the fruits of the rapid development of China’s science and technology. While thanking the Chinese scientific research workers for their painstaking efforts, they also complained about the fact that China’s science and technology is lagging behind the United States. After so many years of angry youth, I still can't help but want to say to them: What is really worrying is not the backwardness of technology, but the backwardness of thinking. The thought I am talking about is an attitude towards science. The correct attitude towards science is by no means blindly advocating science, it also requires our questioning and criticism. Science is the crystallization of human wisdom, but we cannot let the crystallization of our wisdom become the killer of human happiness, or even cause the destruction of human beings. As a non-scientist, it is inconvenient to talk about science, but I think that the view that science and technology is a double-edged sword is by no means unreasonable. This film has already given a full explanation. Not only this film, but also the current social reality. We have already told us that we are not far away from the scientific crisis, and even the scientific crisis has been staged frequently in our real life-Internet addiction, Internet fraud, viruses, hackers, nuclear weapons... The benefits of high-tech are well known, and high-tech belt The harm here is far greater than people think. When you are unable to extricate yourself from the cold screen all the time, and gradually fade the warm true feelings between people, it is also a manifestation of the scientific crisis. The last sentence of T800 before the end was tearful, and it contains philosophy-I finally know why you guys are crying, this is something I can never do. The robots of the future are better than humans in everything, except for one thing-that is, robots will never have the joys, sorrows, sorrows and joys of humans. High technology can create everything, except for human nature, we must not be taken away by high technology without emotion. What is the smartest animal on earth? Humans. But this answer must be annotated, because we are smart enough to destroy the human species. Is this the smartness we want?

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Terminator 2: Judgment Day quotes

  • John Connor: Are you ever afraid?

    The Terminator: No.

    John Connor: Not even of dying?

    The Terminator: No.

    John Connor: You don't feel any emotion about it one way or another?

    The Terminator: No. I have to stay functional until my mission is complete. Then it doesn't matter.

    John Connor: Yeah. I have to stay functional too. I'm "too important".

  • John Connor: We need to get my mother.

    The Terminator: Negative. The T-1000's highest probability for success now will be to copy Sarah Connor and to wait for you to make contact with her.

    John Connor: Great, but what happens to her?

    The Terminator: Typically, the subject being copied is terminated.

    John Connor: Shit! Why didn't you tell me? We gotta go right now!

    The Terminator: Negative. She's not a mission priority.

    John Connor: Fuck you! She's a priority to me!