This movie is not art

Rating: Null/10 (16 July 2011)

So many people have tried to lump this movie into one of two categories. "Art" or "Science-fiction". It is actually neither of these in my opinion. It, to me is an explanation of where we come from and where we are going. Not necessarily the truth, but one of many possible explanations. It shows evolution, which is a slow process and which is depicted in the film by long slow shots of spaceships and Savannah's and so on, but also the rapidity of scientific advancement, shown by the quick edits from bone to spaceship and in the "relatively" quick advances from moon travel to planetary travel to travel to other universes.
"HAL" while being an unforgettable figure in the movie, seems to be almost unnecessary in the telling of this epic tale. The history of the human race does not need a protagonist, and seems to be put in only as a cinematic device so that people would have some sort of "connection" to this as a "movie", with a hero and villain.
It is to me only a vision on film. It is not art. It is not drama. It s not science fiction. It is one view of reality, and that is all. The world may or may not have developed this way and may or may not continue to develop this way. No one knows. That I think is the point of this movie. Who knows?