The Privilige of Becoming Human

Rating: 10/10 (12 February 2008)

Among stars, the huge vacuum of space, we are minimal, we are just blurry spots questioning our existence. In space we discover our importance, and Kubrick highlights from a sequence of the dawn of men (hominids) that we are in our expressive pinnacle and can ask many questions without any real answers.
This movie is not conventional: it seems superficial to talk about characters, plot, bad people or heroes. This film is more likely a search, an inner quest. There is no need to have strong explanations, because in the ignorance and inaction of mind we find the beauty that makes us human.
Stanley Kubrick uses onirical production stages, disorienting cameras, psychedelic effects, brutal mix of colors.
"2001" is just an answer, very mixed in its conception, but needed for those who ask constantly: -Who are we? Where are we going? Where do we come from? Or Better: What are we but a creation and production of our enlightened and conscious mind?