From the ape's bone through HAL 9000, humans are always searching for the next future. The greatest odyssey of them all.

Rating: 10/10 (7 October 2005)

From the ape's bone through HAL 9000, humans are always searching for the next future.
2001 is the greatest odyssey of them all.
In an incredible cooperation between literature and cinema, two giants - Arthur Clark and Stanley Kubrick brought us this glimpse of the human evolution.
2001 is attached to the reality as we knew it in 1967 and in many ways influenced our lives, especially in industrial design.
More than "another science fiction movie", 2001 starts with our ancestors the apes in their struggle to control nature and develops thousands of years later during the conquest of the moon and the journey to Jupiter and the Unknown.
In this human odyssey the great star is indeed HAL 9000 the computer in charge of the navigation of the Jupiter Mission. In contrast of its twin on earth, HAL 9000 is in the spacecraft. The weight of responsibility causes the computer to make bad decisions. Being perfect and perfectionist HAL 9000 needs to cover up.
And the rest is history...