The art of cinema

Rating: Null/10 (6 January 1999)

2001 is art. There are few films in today's movie theatres that could be interpreted as true art. Clark and Kubrick did not intend this movie to tell you what you are and what to think, but rather make you think. Just reading the comments about this movie, tells you that there are many ways to analyze or understand it, but there is no one answer for it. Art does not enforce its views on you, but asks you to view it. You may hate this movie, but do so for the right reason, once you have thought about it. 'Getting it' is not a requirement, thinking is. As much as the movie (and this is my view - and others I guess) tried to show this, humans have become arrogant and intellectually lazy. 2001 had the vision of telling us which way humanity is going in 1968, a reminder for what we could become, but I think there is no monolith out there that will guide us to a new direction, but rather we have to find it ourselves - think.