X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST

X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST. Bryan Singer, director. Simon Kinberg, script, co-story. Jane Goldman, Simon Kinberg, Matthew Vaughn, story (see IMDb for complexities of credits for comic stories and characters). USA/UK/Canada: Twentieth Century Fox presents a production by Marvel Entertainment in association with TSG Entertainment et al. (production) / Twentieth Century Fox (US theatrical distribution), 2014; see IMDb for additional production companies and impressive complexity of distribution.

There is one scene set in Professor Charles Xavier's telepathic-contact chamber — made more of in X-MEN 2 — q.v. for an image of the superimposition of the electronic, possibly cybernetic, and definitely electrical upon a human head, both presumably containing human thoughts and passions imaged surrounding him; the technology is old-fashioned (note dials), and dusty. More important are the Sentinels, human-shaped but very large robots that include Mutant DNA, giving them the superpowers of the various Mutants. The Sentinels also have the ability to detect Mutants, and, in the Sentinels' advanced forms, detect, and eliminate, phenotypically normal humans that will pass on the Mutant gene to be expressed in children and/or grandchildren. Cf. and strongly contrast squid-like "sentinels" in THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS.

RDE, Initial Compiler, 27May18