Perfect film to me

Rating: 10/10 (5 July 2015)

To me, this is the perfect film... it captures something that I haven't seen any other movie capture... awe.
Usually movies involve "standard' human emotion... anger, fear, pride, passion etc... This is the only movie that I think takes a step beyond into the sublime. Standard storytelling involves 'conflict' and 'drama'. There is some of that here for sure, but there's a transcendental/meditative quality to the film.
It does not use conventional storytelling techniques... and it's a good thing it doesn't. There is enough dialogue to give a complete picture of the plot... Any more dialogue would have been extraneous.
However, the film is NOT a mush of ambiguity... it tells a very clear profound story about human evolution... the economy of words gives more clarity... not less...
Visually, it is perfect... amazing, a film almost 50 years old... yet stands up to any sci-fi film today.
If you want to be swept up in drama and 'standard' human emotion... you won't get that here. But I think you get something much better.