THE AWE AND THE MYSTERY
Found that image over to the side and wanted to post it, but there's almost nothing to say about Stanley Kubrick's sci-fi peyote stew (read: "2001") that it doesn't say for itself. Jarring in ways that leaves one wondering exactly what it was that so affected you. And like most Kubrick films, its meanings are both elusive and completely obvious. The dual layered structure of the film presents you with a pair of seemingly at odds messages, showing us the thin line between animal and man and the thin line between machine and man at once.
Unique in that, unlike so many other great science fiction films, it simply has no imitators.
"Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over."
Unique in that, unlike so many other great science fiction films, it simply has no imitators.
Why exactly is 2001 Science Fiction? Spaceships dancing to classical music, directions for the use of a toilet, apes?
It is only SF in the way a creole tongue relates to its sources. Similar to to Heavy Metal record put out by a Classical musician. I suppose if one considers it acceptable to consider Led Zeppelin's first album a blues record then 2001 is a SF movie.
Okay, enough splitting hairs (on my part) already.
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