I remember very well how I watched “Terminator 2: Doomsday” on jammed video cassettes and the film was interrupted by news or advertisements - that’s how it was recorded on TV, we didn’t always have time to press the stop button. Too long to explain.
Those who were younger, climbed behind the sofa at the sight of the liquid metal T-1000, and in every third room across the country hung a poster with Schwarzenegger on a motorcycle. It seems that until the early 2000s, clothing stores sold T-shirts with the face of the Terminator - usually the one from 1991, but also the one from 1984.
For people whose youth was in the 1990s, Terminator was the personification of justice and power. A healthy man who comes and silently corrects everything, but for the sake of you will sacrifice himself without hesitation. Even if he has no brains.
In addition, in that film, there was a furious Sarah Connor, who embodied the archetype of her mother, a frenzied offspring of the offspring, rebelling against the whole world.
Not underestimating the importance of all other cultural and pop culture phenomena that occurred to my childhood, we can say that to some extent me and people like me were raised by the Terminator, whom I know frame by frame.
Then there were some continuations, as a rule, unconvincing and disastrous. The cult status of the franchise is still held on that second film, where a terrible liquid metal car flies behind John Connor from the future, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, being a machine of a more traditional, almost modernist type, successfully saves John.
The simplest thing to say: since then, everyone has grown old. It is on the surface. And we have long survived the eschatological future that the film promised us. The uprising of the cars in that expected format did not happen - it is possible that precisely because John Connor was saved.
It would be possible to end on this - as you know, you cannot teach an old dog new tricks. But the director of the original dilogy, James Cameron, decided to teach the old dog old tricks. So the film “Terminator: Dark Fates” appeared, produced by Cameron.
The new film is not related to parts 3, 4, and 5, it is knocked out of this timeline, and it is justifiably denied.
The film begins with the fact that John Connor is still killed, and kills him three years after the events of the second part of the same T-800 performed by Schwarzenegger.
But something needs to be built on the plot of the film, and the creators choose the two most important topics in today's socio-political field - multiculturalism and feminism.
The new savior of mankind is a young Mexican.
The perfect killer, who consists of both a heavy-duty endoskeleton and a liquid magnetic shell, is sent for her from the same miserable future. Of course, he knows how to take the form of anything, so in life he is very easy. Actually, there is nothing surprising in the fact that the creators did not come up with some fundamentally new Terminator - the T-1000 from the second part was so superior to any imagination that it makes no sense to compete with it.
To protect the Mexican woman from the killer, another woman flies from the future - a perfect but lively resistance soldier. And apparently, so that the two women who escaped do not swear among themselves, they are given the same Sarah Connor performed by the real Linda Hamilton, who keeps herself so confident and cheerful as if they were not 28 years old.
It turns out that the young Mexican, played by Natalia Reyes, just became the main character of the new post-apocalyptic time and led the struggle of people against cars. She did not have to give birth to anyone for this - she, quite in the spirit of radical feminism, was estranged from her natural functions.
The three heroines argue with each other very funny and pathos, deciding whether to escape from the pursuer or ambush him and destroy him. Moreover, Natalia Reyes and Mackenzie Davis, playing a soldier from the future, portray actresses of the Latin American youth series with remarks like “Well, no!” Or “Damn two!”, Frowning brows and pursing lips.
The same T-800 comes to the rescue. Arnold was not that old, but rather settled down. The killing machine carried out internal work on itself, realized that it had destroyed John Connor in vain, experienced a kind of remorse, married and adopted a child, and now is engaged in sewing curtains.
This is a wonderful humorous line, for which it’s worth watching a movie. Schwarzenegger looks at his bullet wounds in his chest and says: "Yes, it will not be easy to explain to his wife."
Like any film that Cameron had a hand in, Terminator: Dark Fates is a spectacular movie. There are chases on highways, burning airplanes, fights in factories and shooting at targets that cannot be destroyed. In general, about everything that is in every “Terminator”. The villain flows around the magnetic intestines, leaving the infernal flame, and the female soldier asks the female savior to kill her for the benefit of mankind.
There are many scenes in the film that literally repeat the classic terminators: taking clothes, chasing a truck, shooting from a helicopter.
But best of all, the creators managed to recreate the scene on the playground. In the second Terminator, the flame of a nuclear apocalypse in a dream devours Sarah Connor, looking at the children playing peacefully. In the new film, a Mexican girl and an elderly Sarah smugly look at the playground they saved and leave for a paramilitary jeep into the distance along a bourgeois autumn street. Now they will keep an eye on this world.
And the only man in this film - the tired Schwarzenegger - having completed all the dirty work, forever extinguishes his red eye.
He is no longer here.
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