Very few movies require revisiting as 2001 does...

Rating: 10/10 (17 June 2000)

It took me about 4 or 5 views in theatres and a fortunate encounter with the official script (borrowed from the American Library) to finally come to senses with the outstanding movie I first watched when I was 13... 2001 was the first movie I had watched that compelled me to think and discuss what it was all about... This is probably its most important feature. Then there was all that fantastic display of perfect animation combined with superb musical score and finally (from end to beginning - I still think this is the way the film should be interpreted, hence the reborn humanity in the end) that initial episode "The Dawn of Man" where Kubrick tells us all about evolution (Darwin or no Darwin) with that amazing transformation of a bone into a spaceship.
Nobody in his unique thinking human condition can become indifferent to the philosophical principles set by both Kubrick and Clarke.
A hint (not a spoiler) for those who didn't understand the connection between "The Dawn of Man" and "Jupiter Mission, 18 months later": pay attention to sunlight when that group gets down to the crater where the monolith is...
A final remark: notice how Kubrick and his crew foresaw the importance of video display by 2000 (computers only had primeval printers as an output device back in the sixties). Irony: IBM is no longer as important as he thought it might be...