Solo story
A suspersoldier android comes to desire more from life than the slaughtering of enemy combatants. The film is based on the 1989 novel Weapon by Robert Mason.
15 total · 2 choice · 7 major · 6 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| android | choice | The story follows the android supersoldier Solo as he comes to question his "kill all enemy combatants" programming directives and gets more and more in touch with his softer side. |
| supersoldier | choice | The story follows the android supersoldier Solo as he comes to question his "kill all enemy combatants" programming directives and gets more and more in touch with his softer side. |
| AI point of view | major | The android supersoldier Solo repeatedly struggled to make sense of such human behaviors as a boy risking his life to save a family member, someone bluffing to trick a friend, and so on. |
| human vs. sentient machine | major | From the black ops soldiers' point of view, the supersoldier android Solo was a dangerous foe to be tracked down and apprehended. A supersoldier android version of Colonel Madden attacked the peasant village at the very end of the film. |
| maker and machine | major | The supersoldier android Solo formed a bond of trust with his maker, Dr. Bill Stewart. In the end, the android mourned Bill's death at the hands of some enemy black ops soldiers. |
| military related work | major | Colonel Madden led a black ops mission into a Central American jungle to retrieve the supersoldier android gone good Solo. |
| purpose in life | major | The supersoldier android Solo sought more out of life than the be a killing machine for the military. |
| the desire to be human | major | A flaw in the supersoldier android Solo's programming led him to develop a conscience and compassion. Solo went on to cultivate his human side (e.g. he learned to laugh, and joke, and mourn) as he helped a group of peasant farmers defend themselves from guerrilla insurgents. |
| war | major | A community of peasant farmers were caught up in the middle of a conflict between the United States military and a band of guerrilla insurgents. |
| augmented reality | minor | The android supersoldier Solo's vision was overlain with pertinent information about his surroundings, including which people on a battlefield were enemy combatants and which were non-combatants. |