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2001: A Space Odyssey - What's it trying to say?

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I recently watched this movie and I cant stop thinking about it... I want to know what other people thought about it, whats the point? whats it trying to say?
 
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I recently watched this movie and I cant stop thinking about it... I want to know what other people thought about it, whats the point? whats it trying to say?
Don't take lip reading for granted.
Artificial intelligence is a threat.
Life is precious.
 
Re: 2001: A space odyssey - Whats it trying to say?

How to use the amenities facility in space.


Hopefully it would also be on the back of the door.
 
I want to know what other people thought about it, what's the point? what's it trying to say?

The movie script is a conflation by the author, Arthur C. Clark and director Stanley Kubrick, of 2 of Clark's short stories: Hal and The Sentinel.

Before that collaboration, much of The Sentinel's philosophy was expanded in an earlier novel by A.C.C: Childhood's End.

There are also sequel novels: 2010 and I think also a seq-sequel, but if you read Childhood's End (quite a good novel in its own right), you'll get a clearer picture of what 2001, particularly its enigmatic ending, is all about. You may also get a better appreciation of director Kubrick's attempt to render into imagery what Clark expounded in prose.

As for what I think of 2001 as a movie: it's a masterpiece, book-ended in the context of Kubrick's career by 2 other equal but different masterpieces: Dr. Strangelove and Clockwork Orange.

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Interesting, Whats the rectangle all about?
 


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fell out of my chair reading the title of the thread.......Stanley would laugh too
 
Interesting, Whats the rectangle all about?

I read something that suggested it was a communication beacon for an advanced species. I.e. instead of sending ships, they'd send these, and wait for the primitive race to discover them.
 
the monolith featured at various moments in the film I believe to be a metaphor for 'truth' itself. It is the symbol for something obscure that is just out of reach of human comprehension (whether that may be the primitive or the technologically advanced mind) and yet forms the basis for all human culture, philosophy, ideology etc.

The truth masks the fact that there is none. The simulacrum is true.(Baudrillard)

This visual metaphor is extended through the psychedelic journey in the final act when the vastness of space is juxtaposed with the embryonic emergence of human life. The infinite and the miniscule sharing the grand stage. In that strange room where Dave is constantly running into himself as he ages through strange future echoes he finally rises from his deathbed and reaches out to touch the monolith. Even in the end, truth remains elusive and impenetrable.
 
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