Speechless

Rating: 10/10 (19 March 2014)

I remember seeing this film with a couple of friends. Trough the lengthy space scenes, we made jokes on expense of the astronauts; we mocked HAL9000 voice... and sometimes we yawn. Then came the last 20 minutes and... we became speechless, on the one hand because we didn't understood what the hell was happening, but also because we glimpsed the importance of this piece of work. 2001 is maybe the most ambitious film of all time; Kubrick wanted to make the quintessential science-fiction movie, and he did it, plus posing a question that today seems very pertinent: What's the next stage of human evolution? Kubrick tries to answer this with all the effectiveness possible in cinema; The image rules, words are secondary. Often imitated, but never matched, 2001 challenges the very nature of cinema as an art form and as a vehicle for philosophical endeavors. A true Classic.