Pointless

Rating: 1/10 (13 March 2006)

2001: a space odyssey, is a film that tries to show that man is moving too fast, in his race for easy living. It starts out with the supposed beginning of man-kind, a bunch of monkeys trying to learn together. This is one of the best known scenes in history, although it promotes evolutionism, an accepted "fact" in the sixties. This does have purpose though, to the story, as it shows how life "started out" for us, and this movie is supposed to show how life will end for us. It's purpose, truly, was to show that technology and advancement, will be the end of mankind. At the time it was made, it was considered to be genius, and that certainly, by the time 2001 came, computers would be smarter than humans (and would try to take over the world) But as we have seen, this isn't completely true. I found this film to be slightly pointless.