Sci-fi and cinema changed forever with "2001"

Rating: 10/10 (18 January 2009)

Some people consider this film a complete non-sense, some consider it as a great trip after taking some LCD, and lastly, we find a group of people (including me) that consider this movie as the greatest sci-fi of all time. This group is growing larger every year, but why? One possible explanation is that Kubrick was considered as an ambitious young director at the time, that made some critically and popularly acclaimed films (The Killing, Paths of Glory, Lolita, Spartacus, Dr. Strangelove) but never tried the sci-fi genre at all. Another cause might be that, in 1968, the public wasn't used to watch a movie in which nothing happened during 15 minutes. Sure, they had some Bergman's or Buñuel's but 2001 was distributed world-wide, like a commercial film. Even though it had a moderate success in the box-office, very few people could walk out of the cinema saying that they understood it. Actually, nobody can say that they got the point meaning it. Not even Kubrick nor Clarke (R.I.P. for both) could've really explained the world they have created. Some interpretations say that its about human's position in the Universe, the evolution of man, how the real aliens must be etcetera...Don't let yourselves to be fooled with these: "2001"'s meaning is as dark as it could be, but no one will really get it. Why? Because everyone watches this movie from a different point of view, and that's the magic of cinematographic industry: everyone has a different way to watch films.