The Terminator 4K 1984 Ultra HD 2160p

After a terrible atomic war, killer robots have taken over the earth. They bring death and total destruction to all living things. The remnants of people who managed to survive are hiding in the underground and are engaged in a desperate struggle for survival. Thanks to their talented leader John Connor, they come close to victory, but to destroy the plans of the resistance, the robots send back in time a monstrous cyborg killer. He has a mission to prevent the birth of the resistance leader. To do so, he must find the hero's mother. To protect the woman, the resistance sends its fighter into the past. But what can an ordinary man do in a fight with a terminator?

User Review
When you re-watch classic movies like Terminator, you sometimes discover an unexpected side to them.

Today, rewatching the 1984 cult film, I realized that the first Terminator has a message that is not related to the idea of artificial intelligence, but looks much deeper into the nature of being. Moreover, this message, as it seems to me, was not conceived by Cameron on purpose. It follows naturally from all the events of the movie.

Of course, every viewer while watching the movie thought about such things as cause-and-effect relations of time travel, and how actions influence the events of the future. This is most clearly dictated by the basic tenet of the entire franchise: 'The future is not predetermined. There is no destiny but the one we make'. But few people noticed that the narrative of the first movie hints at the exact opposite conclusion.

If you look at many of the key scenes, it becomes clear that all events are an absolutely unchangeable course of events. One thing is impossible without the other. Time in this concept is not a flow, but something immutable and eternal in which all events of the past, present, and future have always existed. They are predetermined, and all our deeds are just bricks of this universe that cannot be changed.

The heroes of the movie think that they change the future, but in fact they only create it as it should be and as it has always existed.

This idea was inspired by the moment in the final scene where the Mexican boy takes a photo of Sarah, which John will give to Kyle many years later. That is one of those building blocks. Every event in the movie is the natural order of things in the endless cycle of the universe.

Therein lies some of the doom of the first Terminator. We can't change anything because all our actions are predetermined. The war with the machines cannot be canceled, and neither can time travel itself. This idea is best expressed by Brad Fiedel's music, which emphasizes the general mood of the film. It is a requiem for the illusory nature of choice.

The concept of an unchanging world is also a response to the various paradoxes of time travel. For example, about who was John Connor's father before Kyle Reese. If all events have always existed, then there are no paradoxes. It's an endless cycle that we can't fully comprehend.

It's amazing how such a view changes the way the first terminator is viewed.

Of course, I highly doubt James Cameron put such an idea in the movie. But I'm glad that he created a movie where every viewer has the opportunity to look at the story from different angles.

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Codec: HEVC / H.265 (67.2 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1

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#English: Dolby TrueHD with Dolby Atmos 7.1 (48kHz, 16-bit)
#English: Dolby Digital Plus with Dolby Atmos 5,1
#English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
#French: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
#German: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
#Italian: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
#Spanish (Latino): DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
#Spanish: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
#Czech: Dolby Digital 2.0
#Russian: DTS Audio 5.1
#Hungarian: Dolby Digital 2.0
#Polish: Dolby Digital 5.1
#Turkish: Dolby Digital 2.0
#Portuguese: Dolby Digital 2.0
#Thai: Dolby Digital 2.0
#Japanese: DTS Audio 5.1

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