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Didactic ending of The Day the Earth Stood Still

by ccManager
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A robot police force creates peace across the galaxy
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The didactic ending of The Day the Earth Stood still culminates in a warning from outer space for humans to shape up or face destruction by an intergalactic police force of pitiless robots, a bizarre conflation of post-WWII Cold War rhetoric and technological triumphalism.

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