Terminator 2 opening analysis

I decided to watch a different kind of thriller so i decided to watch Terminator 2 Judgement day. Overall i was very impressed with this film i thought the use of special effects was great and it matched most of the convections of a thriller film.

Here is the opening scene i analysed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9YU0hQEZ5M . The camera starts with a long establishing shot of a busy motorway scene. Non dietetic slow paced music is played straight away. It then cuts to some children playing on swings with sounds of laughter. They use special effects to change it from happy to sad. A blank white screen appears to show a change in time. The next shot shows a scene of destruction, as you have a close up of a burnt out car, with a human skeleton inside. This shows an element of the thriller genre. The camera pans out to show even more destruction with many other cars like it and also shows the motorway bridge we see at the beginning of the extract has been demolished. We can see that it is night time this and dead skulls show an element of danger. It also shows the playground that we saw kids happily playing in  has been ruined and deserted.  A non diegetic narrator is introduced and we find out what has happened.

We see a close up of a robots foot crush a humans skull which shows conflict between eachother. The camera zooms out and looks up at the robot showing that the robot has power and authority and weakness of the humans. We see it holding a futuristic weapon and laser bolts in the background this shows that it a Sci- Fi thriller.

 We see a human and his costume suggests there is a war. An extreme long shot shows the fight between the human soldiers and the machines. The machines look a lot bigger and more powerful.

There is another cut to a underground bunker, all the dietetic sound of the battle is stopped and the narrator starts to speak again about the importance of one character. We see this and the camera shows this because all the other soldiers are saluting him. We have a close up about the character she is speaking about. We see him in a high ranked uniform which again shows his importance. An extreme close up of his eyes are followed by an explosion and the credits begin to commence on a fiery background.