Masterpiece of Art

Rating: 10/10 (18 August 2010)

I cannot add more to what has been said in the precious reviews about this film. Actually, that is entirely incorrect. This film rings so many personal bells with me that I have a lifetime of things to say about this film, and this is exactly what you will experience when you watch it, whether you like it not.
I would like to say two things though. One, the special effects in this film are so unbelievably incredible that you might think the US government faked the moon landings on the set of 2001.
Secondly, I would like to compare this film to previous films that have been considered 'great' film, or even the 'greatest' films of all time. One such film is Hitchcock's Vertigo. Now I would like to challenge you to imagine film-making since the time of The Matrix to now (2010) during which time films such as Pandorum, Cargo, Transformers have been made. Now the difference in these films' cultural reference, their perspective of the world and the universe is almost identical. The tremendous technological developments between this decade have hardly separated these films into different categories of film-making.
Now compare 'Vertigo' and '2001', films separated by a mere decade, look at the difference between those films. It is enormous, tremendous, and inconceivable. The understanding of human perspective, human life, our place in the universe, the expanse of the universe itself. The difference is extreme to the highest degree, and they are the same distance apart as The Matrix is to Pandorum. This not only is an indictment of Vertigo's complete lack of vision but a testament to 2001's powerful and eternal thrust into the realm of modern film-making human vision.
Watch 2001 and begin to appreciate the vastness of space, of matter, of intelligence, of possibility, of everything. This is simply the greatest statement that has ever been conveyed with film, and in cinema.
2001 will live forever.