A triumph!

Rating: 10/10 (4 August 2005)

2001: A Space Odyssey.
Stanley Kubrick has left his mark in cinema with a wide selection of masterpieces, both big and small. Whilst not on his most controversial list, 2001: A Space Odyssey, must be his most thought provoking story of man and his tools. With the exception of a few scenes, this film in my books is more an artistic composure of space; as an example, to spend three, four, even five minutes watching a ship docking on a space station would seem all too slow, boring and even dull, but Kubrick, and his genius film making techniques made it a thing of art.
Up until this films release, all films both action and not would have spent 95% of screen time pushing the story forward with dialogue and simple camera movement. Now although Kubrick sticks with this outline, the special effects can be marveled at as if a piece of gold. To this day, i still can not be sure what is real and what is not and I've never wanted to ask or find out. Some secrets are best left unblemished, and to the imagination.
Although art, this is still a film. We get a story, but instead of being told we are to figure the concept out by our own will; which in the case of watching this film is easier said then done. Although complex, and without any true conclusion, i still have the basic theory and believe I've thumbed down on what Kubrick was trying to tell.
Hal was the scary plot for me. A man losing control of his tools was a scary concept that left me in a dilemma of what I've just seen and what it meant. The truth: man losses control of tools -- a man is lost without his tools. (SPOILER!) The final supper scene was the strangest, and took the longest to find out. It took some research, but i now understand what Kubrick was trying to say, which was. Body and soil, glass and wine. The glass smashes but the wine is still their.
All in all this film was and in my opinion still is utterly groundbreaking and has one of the best story lines ever; humans and the unknown. I can't help but give it a high score.
97/100