Structuralism is the structure in which we understand and make meaing to everything. From Jacques Deride working witbh structuralism, we get binary opposites or binary opposition. These are a very useful tool to make a rough understanding of the human mind., because as humans we like to make catogories for most, or all, things. Binary opposites are complete opposites, such as light and dark, good and evil. We use these catogories to create stories by creating the structure that the story follows. There is nearly always a good character and a bad character in stories. However the most inportant part of binary opposites is the zone of anomaly. This is everything between the binary opposites, what appears here is everything that isn't exactly like the opposites. An example of this would be the Terminator. He is neither human nor machine, he is a mix of the two, a cyborg. In film and TV terms, a creature which exist in the zone of anomaly is far scarier than something which doesn't.

The binary opposites in Terminator 2 are quite easy to spot. The Terminator played by Arnie is usually shown in a blue-tinted shot, the opposite is the liquid Terminator that is shown in an orange-tinted shot. These colours are used because they reflect human emotions, orange being close to red which goes hand in hand with anger. Blue is reflective with sadness mostly, but in this case it is reflected as caring or good. Other examples would be orange symbolising fire and therefore melting, blue being ice and solid materials. The use of these opposites are put in deliberatly to give the film a more in depth feeling, by that I mean the audience feels more part of the film. It also makes it seem more proffessional.