"Free" choice

Branson 2022-03-22 09:01:18

To accommodate the aging governor, the writers changed the timeline in the second installment, pushing Judgment Day to 2017. Seeing the gray-haired T-800, there is a kind of sadness of the hero's twilight. The image of the governor has even changed from a killer without blinking an eye to a prudent dad.

Keeping pace with the times, Skynet in 2017 has become a network application "Genesis", which is a wake-up call to the current situation of people's extreme dependence on the Internet and mobile phones. But it didn't go too deep, after all, this is not the theme of the film. The theme of this film is a homage to the first and the second, and it can be said that no effort is spared, and every opportunity is not missed.

The changes to Skynet are okay, the more unacceptable thing is that John Connor has become the villain, and once the truth is known, Sarah Connor shoots her son without mercy - which is quite The style of "Dragon Mom".

In the film, Sarah complained that her destiny was planned and was changed by Skynet and the Human Resistance Army. The main theme is to fall in love with Kyle Reese and give birth to John. This may be a good breakthrough point to shoot some new ideas or depths that are different from the previous works. It's a pity that she only stopped complaining, and finally she "freely" chose to kiss Kyle together. Thus, the logic chain is closed, and the cycle can continue.

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Terminator Genisys quotes

  • Garbage Man: [the garbage truck's engine stops] What the hell? Goddamn son of a bitch...

  • [first lines]

    Kyle Reese: [narrating] Before they died, my parents told me stories about how the world once was; what it was like long before I was born; before the war with the machines. They remembered a green world, vast and beautiful, filled with laughter and hope for the future. It's a world I never knew. By the time I was born, all this was gone.

    Kyle Reese: "Skynet," a computer program designed to automate missile defense. It was supposed to protect us, but that's not what happened. August 29th, 1997, Skynet woke up. It decided all of humanity was a threat to its existence.

    [scenes of mass destruction]

    Kyle Reese: It used our own bombs against us. Three billion people died of nuclear fire.

    Kyle Reese: Survivors called it Judgement Day. People lived like rats in shadows, hiding, starving, or worse, captured and put into camps for extermination. I was born after Judgement Day, into a broken world ruled by the machines. The worst were infiltration units that posed as humans. We called them Terminators.

    John Connor: [finding young Kyle in subterranean tunnels] Are there others down here?

    Kyle Reese: And then one man found me. His name was John Connor, and he changed everything. John showed us how to fight back; how to rise up. He freed prisoners. He taught us how to slash the machines to scrap. People whisper about John and wonder how he can know the things he does. They use words like prophet. But John's more. We're here because tonight, he's going to lead us to crush Skynet for good.