journey that left me at the starting point

Rating: 10/10 (21 February 2009)

To begin with 2001 a space odyssey is the most underrated and most unfortunate piece of art.underrated because rather bafflingly some people fail to experience kubrick's film and unfortunate because it was ahead of its time.i saw the film two months earlier for the first time and since then i have watched it 9 times,i cant fathom how this was made then in 1968. The images kubrick creates and the music he chose to project them are haunting.The film is agonizingly and pleasantly slow.perhaps kubrick wanted to tune us to his images that he left the first 3 minutes empty as space is with only music that sets the tone.similarly in the shining the initial bgm tuned us.the dawn of the man sequences were so beautifully shot.he had cleverly taken of some the revealing information which was otherwise there in the novel adding to the mystery.The moon sequences were surreal.the sequences which showed docking in of spacecraft to the spaceship with the orchestral music in the backdrop alone could have fetched kubrick the Oscar.its a shame it did not receive anymore of the academy awards which is simply inexplicable. the scenes involving bowman and hal are the most chilling scenes that i have scene.and the hostility shown by hal is so delicately portrayed. the final minutes of the film bare testimony to kubrick's audacity. not mozart's,not bethoveen's,not leonardo da vinci's,it is stanley kubrick's 2001:a space odyssey that is the most exhilarating piece of art.