At 5:50, a giant Indian terminator rises from the ground.

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The giant Indian terminator is made up of a hundred or so small Indian terminators. Each small terminator has suppressed its own selfish interests for the functioning and coordination of the whole. What the small terminator is to the giant terminator is what bacteria is to the human and all other animals. By this I do not mean the free-living bacteria in your gut, mouth, or surface of the skin, but the cells of your actual body. Their symbiotic path to the body: From bacteria, to protists, to multicellularity. If one of the small Indian terminators decided to break with the whole and pursue its own interests, its on course in life, this small Indian terminator would be a cancer in the body of the giant Indian terminator.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...

13 replies on “The Body and the Giant Indian Terminator”

  1. Might want to do a simple search on SLOG before re-posting clips to this movie. Endhiran is the name of the movie, but the US release, I think it was titled “Robot”.

    Its 3 hour movie, with about an hour dedicated to Hindi Music Video sequences that come out of nowhere and have nothing to do with the plot of the movie. Not a great movie, but one with visual effects that ive personally never seen in a sci-fi.

  2. @2 I just shot milk out my nose!

    I think you are dead on. A basic understanding of philosophy multiplied by a well read blog. A perfect storm of hilarity IMO.

  3. Um, Charles you DO realize there’s ONE “small Indian terminator” (actually more of a plain-old non-human skinned android, to be more precise) in that conglomeration that’s DIRECTING all the other SIT’s, right? And that its original benign programming was in point of fact corrupted by an evil HUMAN, right? All of which rather diminishes your analogy when put into the proper context.

    But then, you would have had to actually watch the movie to know that, which I understand might be somewhat of a problem, seeing as it’s soooo difficult to track down online.

  4. But what happens when the big terminators combine together to make an even bigger terminator?

    Is it exponential, and does it stop growing when it reaches the total size of the universe? So many questions!

  5. I think this may have surpassed the ‘Look at this shirt i’m wearing, i don’t care what anyone thinks about this shirt i’m wearing’ post as my favorite Mudede post to hate.

  6. @5: Remember that Charles is also the only film reviewer who never actually watches the movies he reviews. Not the full movie or not with his full attention, anyway. He’s admitted to this more than once.

  7. Hot tip: Scarecrow Video has an “Endhiran” DVD for rent – except that I’ve got it out myself right at this moment 🙂 Returning it this evening however.

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