It's a tale of the consequences of rampant fear of the outsider, filtered through
the lens of a dystopian future, filled with an abundance of jokes, and set against the meticulously crafted worlds of an island of garbage and the pristine order of an engineered metropolis.
Bignall stresses that Americans» perceptions
of robots is altered by a cultural
lens which depicts them as an existential threat — one that costs blue - collar workers their livelihood and down the line could endanger society as a whole (think the
dystopian future in «Terminator»).