Humans & Dark of the Moon

(Transformers: Dark of the Moon Poster)

In Transformers: Dark of the Moon, the "Einstein" of the Autobots, Sentinel Prime, is discovered to have crash-landed on the Moon in the 1960's, which gave rise to the "Moon race" between the United States and the Russians. In the ship that crashed on the dark side of the moon was a technology invented by Sentinel that is assumed by the Autobots to have had the capability that could have possibly ended the war between the Autobots and the Decepticons ("decept-i-cons"; deception = lie; cons = opposition) aboard their destroyed planet, Cybertron. What was not known was that the Russians did get their first and identified hundreds of "pillars" that disappeared whereas the United States only obtained a small handful upon arrival.

It is learned in the film that Sentinel betrayed the Autobots in order to help his species to "survive" because he did not believe the Autobots would win against the Decepticons. Sentinel's plan all along was to transfer the hidden Decepticons on the Moon to the Earth and rebuild Cybertron by exhausting Earth's natural resources where the humans would be enslaved to aide the Decepticons in this endeavor. Leader of the Autobots, Optimus Prime, takes care of him in the end.

(Sentinel Prime in Ship on Dark Side of the Moon)

What most might not immediately grasp from "dark of the moon" is that the dark side of the moon refers to the hue of the moon ("men-sis" (Isis = Goddess of the Moon) in Latin; "month" in Greek), which correlates to humans ("hue-mens") as the Earth's Moon contributes to human behavior. This is evidenced by our term, lunacy ("lunar-acy" = intermittent insanity/foolishness), and the fluctuations in the electromagnetic interaction between the Moon and the Earth. Mensis refers to a woman's ("woman" = womb-man) monthly reproductive process and all humans are conceived and developed in the hollow of the womb. What might be added here is that monster ("moon-star") is defined as a "malformed animal or human, creature afflicted with a birth defect." Notice how this definition refers to "malformed" (imperfect) and does not specify "misshapen" character exclusively.

Furthermore, the film is about an Autobot that defects to the Decepticons where the Decepticon leadership aides Optimus Prime in killing off Sentinel Prime in the end. What can be expressed here is that "there is no honor among thieves." The Decepticons came to Earth with the purpose of exhausting humanity of their freedom and resources only for their own personal gain and without mutual benefit. What can be said here is that humans are a lot like Decepticons where they deceive and kill for power, glory, and personal satisfaction regardless of its costs to others by means of warfare. Unless humans change their ways and become stewards of this planet, we will be the cause of our own demise.

"All war is based on deception." -- Sun Tzu, The Art of War