What we can learn from the Terminator movies

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THE 1991 American sci-fi movie Terminator 2: Judgment Day teaches us one valuable lesson: “Appearances are deceiving.”

In the movie, a man in a police uniform is, in fact, a T-1000 advanced cyborg that is a ruthless killing machine. Conversely, the man dressed like a motorcycle gangster, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, is a good cyborg whose mission is to protect John Connor, the future leader of the human resistance against the Artificial Intelligence that tries to annihilate human civilisation.