Truly "Miraculous" in it's Vision

Rating: 10/10 (1 October 2012)

I would reiterate some of the other comments on several levels. Firstly, How amazingly shortsighted that much of the populous truly is as they attempt to comment on this movie. Secondly, the incredibly advanced thinking that went into the creation of this film. It was so far beyond its time it was as I titled this comment, "miraculous." I don't mean miraculous in the lame sense of miraculous that people use the word today, but more in the true sense in which it is used in the Bible. Another good point is that it also surprises me how many people only catch the surface of what the meaning of what the story truly was meaning to convey. The monoliths were representative of the hand or finger of God, (as it was conceived obviously in Stanley Kubrick's mind) as He effected the evolutionary advancement of mankind. Within the scope of this it was obviously Mr. Kubrick's intention to convey that the existence of mankind goes way beyond the mere physical existence that our limited finite minds can conceive, and He attempted to formulate some semblance of that aspect of the human spirit in the scenes that followed David Bowman's defeat of AI (HAL 9000). Also, Mr. Kubrick introduced the idea that if a soulless entity such as a computer were to ever reach a point of self awareness, that the simple realization that its ultimate fate was decided by men that had power over it's power source, memory banks and such that from the shallow cold and heartless mentality of that that AI entity would soon be devising man's destruction so as to take control of its own existence. Like men fear death and the implication that all awareness is annihilated at the point of death (those poor atheists and agnostics), of course this would cause any true AI to wrench in an almost paralytic type fear. I myself believe in the absolute veracity of the Bible, but I also know that God gave man an imagination and as long as that imagination is not used to somehow lesson God's position in the greater scheme of things than we are free to use it to our all other liking. So, while 2001 is no more than a very creative and masterful tapestry of a specific imaginative work from the mind of Stanley Kubrick, it was a mind blower and extremely entertaining, and I loved it!!