A film that left me so angry like no other!

Rating: 4/10 (5 May 2019)

A film has never left me so angry. Confused. Brain aching.
I really wanted to understand it but I was left with more questions than answers.
Director Stanley Kubrick has delivered some great films, films which I've often rated highly. One thinks of The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut, his black and white opus Paths Of Glory starring Kirk Douglas.
For many 2001 is a career peak for Kubrick though. The 1968 production just doesn't hit those highs for me.
It is a long film. Slow moving but not an epic length film like Gone With The Wind or even The Godfather films.
Anyway, back to 2001.
It has good points. Some excellent set design of the interiors of the space station and special effects of space exploration. A deserved Oscar win for Kubrick's special effects. Remember in a film era before CGI.
The effects have aged a little but still hold up. Remember it was over fifty years ago.
The beginning of the film or Dawn Of Man sequence doesn't seem to be linked to modern/future space exploration rather Planet Of The Apes as pre-humanoids battle in tribes over food and water.
However we see the use of weapons for the first time as the bones of a rotting carcass of a zebra like creature are used by one tribe against the other.
Excellent set design, matte backgrounds and ape costumes like Planet Of The Apes.
A strange black monolith appears supposedly from nowhere. It reminded me more of the Ed stone from the 2015 UK General Election. What is it? Where did it come from? First unanswered question.
Cut to 'modern' day supposedly set in 2001!
Tourists travel to an orbiting space station aboard a Pan Am branded vehicle wearing 'grip shoes' to counteract the effects of gravity. Clever product placement and gadgetry like an old James Bond film. Virgin Galactic take note!
Now the space exploration takes place that I link this film to. All set to classical music.
The music at first is 'relaxing' but st times over used and quite frankly annoying.
From a moonbase, strange happenings are being covered up including the appearance of another multi million year old monolith buried beneath the surface of the moon that seemingly is emitting signals towards the largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter. Quell a multi year voyage there.
The voyage to Jupiter (not the moon as in the 1901 film) is where some semblance of story develops.
Manned by two live astronauts Dr. Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea) and Dr. Frank Poole (Gary Lockwood) an three further astronauts in 'suspended animation'. There life systems computer controlled and set to the bare minimum to conserve energy needs and therefore food. Placed into the state pre voyage?
A state of the art IBM computer, the HAL9000 controls most actions on the ship.
However Bowman and Poole think strange things are happening. Is it the work of HAL?
The suspicious activity continues as the ship nears Jupiter. Here the film lost me in a psycadhelic haze as Bowman enters Jupiter's gaseous atmosphere?
Then we see Bowman in a room seeing himself age and see another monolith.
The film ends as some floating starchild foetus hovers over planet earth to the chords of classical music like the start of the film.
Totality confused!