Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Westworld

Here's some more 1970s era robot film--another systems analysis cyborg. These films present a fully synthetic android, and thus are one step removed from later cyborg visions such as the tissue-mechanical hybrid Terminator. In the sequel to Westfworld, the robots are running a theme park through which they capture and replicate world leaders and substitute back into public one of their own, a manufactured robot. Like Stepford, Futureworld portrays a doppelganger consiracy through which real people fall prey to identity theft and expermination. It is related to the Body Snatchers theme, but with a human-made technology twist.

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