Beyond the "2001:A Space Odyssey"

Rating: 10/10 (29 June 1999)

First of all I must mention I did not read the other comments about "2001:A Space Odyssey" before I wrote my first comment, and I must say I am really shocked to see there are people who did not like this film. So, I decided to help the people who do not like to think when they are watching a movie.
What is "2001:A Space Odyssey"? What would you like to call it, a movie, best film ever made, the summit of sci-fi genre? But I must say it is none of them. "2001:A Space Odyssey" is above all these terms. It is a "real" artwork. It is the solution for the main problem of the aesthethics "What is aesthethic or not?". And why?
It will be time and line consuming to describe what an artwork has to contain here so I assume you all have a basic knowledge of art, at least you have to if you are watching a film or you must have knowledge about it if you comment on a film.
Before commenting on film scene by scene and I must mention that this motion picture is a lyric artwork that means it is based on all its creator's emotions, feelings, perception of life and ideologies ..etc. So we must realise that this film was not made to satisfy you and me it was made to satisfy Stanley Kubrick himself. That means again all the things that you see in the film are illusions or images or symbols that reflects that Stanley Kubrick wants you to criticize or think on them. So every single thing in the film may mean different things to different people. So everything that I will write is my opinion here.
Lets start with the "Dawn of Man"; we see apes roaming around without any purpose and any humanistic intentions. They are real animals, in the primary meaning of the word they are animals. They collect, eaten by predators and they all accept this situation, they have no resistance to this. But one morning they wake up and see the black monument that is the mystreous object of the film and they change forever after they touch it,they turns out to be "man". What is the black monument here,what does it mean, Kubrick wants you to replace it with your sacred object, it may be God or whatever you believe in. Then with a great cinematography a "man" (it is a human after it touches the stone) discovers to use object; a bone. Then they fight for their little lake for water and kill the leader of the rival tribe. Here we see that the members of the rival tribe do not use bones as they do cause they did not see or touch the black monument. They are animals and will be forever. Again with a great cinematography we passes from the primitive gadget bone to the latest or the final technology "space crafts".
(to be continued)