A window into the vastness of space and its deep loneliness

Rating: 10/10 (8 October 2013)

Only after Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odissey science fiction film genre was taken seriously, it is a window into the vastness of space and its deep loneliness. In 1968 (one year before the 1st Trip to the Moon) was created this masterpiece which immediately became a reference work for all science fiction and, for me, has never been surpassed by another film of the same. The film's story is complicated and the way we're told does not make it easier. 2001 is a question about why we are here. But, as Kubrick said, "You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of '2001'". To understand it, you have to think about the monolith as an E.T.'s 'tool' watching the evolution of the human race, it represents a challenge. Firstly, Apes are afraid, curious yet, brave, qualities that make them invent the TOOL (starting with bones). Secondly, in space, Man faces this monolith the same way apes did, with curiosity (but this time, with times gone bye, his main tool is a computer). In space, Man has to learn how to walk again, how to go to toilet and has to eat baby food which means, the leader of Earth is a baby in Space.Thirdly, there's HAL-9000, a computer (Man's tool) who starts to 'think' humans are stupid and boring (chess newbies) using warmed-up food and artificial sun. The ultimate tool doesn't need this apes. Man's intense breath in space means we are in space like fishes out of water. Finally, Man loses control of his tools, beginning a battle between Man and 'Alive' Machines. The Computer has won but it didn't calculate the ignorance of the stupid Ape who surprisingly kills HAL-9000 with the most basic tool, a screwdriver. In 2001's final moments, Man, alone in space, prepared to face the unknown and face the ultimate challenge: HIS OWN DEATH. Our evolution was so all based in our tools, but, in the end, it tried to replace us.