The Terminator Themes
Technology and Modernization
Philip K. Dick once said that the ultimate in paranoia isn't the idea that your boss is out to get you—it's the idea that your boss' phone is. In The Terminator, your boss' phone isn't just out t...
Mortality
News flash: we're all gonna die. But that doesn't mean we have to go at the hands of an indestructible cyborg sent from the future with the sole purpose of murdering us. Yet that's the exact situat...
Deception
The Terminator is basically a film warning about online dating before online dating was a thing. You think your date is a bodybuilder with a chic street-fashion style, and you end up going out with...
Perseverance
Winston Churchill once famously said, "If you are going through hell, keep going" (source). In The Terminator, that advice holds true—whether you're going through hell, or whether hell is coming...