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Stanley Kubrick Delivers A Message To Mankind....
by Yahoo! Movies User (movies profile)
Jul 16, 2008
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Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" is not a movie where you can just go and watch. You must be "prepared" for it. If you don't open your eyes and ears you will miss everything that it means and what it symbolizes. The movie will strech your mind.
The movie begins at the Dawn of Man, four million years ago. But lets go back before that. Around that time, a supernatural force enters our Solar System and lands near Jupiter, destination: Earth.
The species of Austrolopithucis now inhabits the earth in north-eastern Africa. This species is the beginning of men's evolution as the apes walk more upright. It shows how man had a tough and miserable life seeking always food and land being taken from neighbors.
But as a tribe of these apes sleep, a black monolith is planted nearby directly aligned with the moon, sun, and other planets. When the apes confront it, they begin to express Fear, Curiousity, and Courage. Kubrick does not explain what the monolith means, but it itself represents a challenge. This brought out the first human feeling in the old apes and man now equiped with curiousity and courage discovers the first tools. This is the first evolutionary leap for mankind and the dawn of a new age.
The movie then skips ahead to the year 2000. Man is soaring at the peak of our evolution with machines and ships in space. But Kubrick tells us something is wrong. A small pen wanders away from a man when he is sleeping and another person must rescue it and give it back. Kubricks point: In space man who's evolution has depended so much on his tools, looses control of his tools in space. Man must learn to walk again in space, eat "baby food", be "potty trained". Kubrick suggests that The Masters of Earth is only children in space.
Then he presents a sinister new character...human's tools and machines are curiously taking a more human form.
And then when man once again faces the monolith again on the moon, he shows none of the apes fear, wonder, and courage. He is civilized, scientific, and rational. The men make a picture film instead. The monolith had been planted on the moon the show how far man had come, it was decided that we were ready for another great step in evolution.
In 2001, man has decided to make a mission to Jupiter to explore a strange signal from nearby. Then a new species is introduced, the HAL 9000 Computer system whom is the CPU for the ship Discovery. Among the trip HAL begins to visualize the humans differently. He sees them as bored, boring. With their warmed up TV-dinners, artifical sun, and have to be virtually dead just to get around. So HAL thinks what are the humans for? They are just maintennance men at the end of their evolution. And then HAL makes a mistake. He predicts total failure from the ship's satelite antenna. Humans need air, and machines don't. In space man is like a fish out of water, extremely vulnerable. HAL realizes that "The Ultimate Tool Doesn't Need These Apes Anymore". And |
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