a transcendent work of cinematic art

Rating: 10/10 (17 September 2003)

few films ever created have the ability to stimulate the senses, the mind, and the emotions simultaneously and completely the way that stanley kubrick's masterpiece can. refering to 2001 as a movie is a bit like calling picasso's "les demoiselles d'avignon" a "picture", or bethoven's ninth symphony a "song". these are works of art that transcend their medium and are too vast in creative genius to be encompassed by classification. the film never fails to transport one to that meditative space of abstract understanding where like a child you are enthrall to the gentle flow of stimuli without the power to sensor the information but rather, absorbing it at an intuitive level. it was once said that mozart was proof that god still spoke to man. 2001 proves that man can speak back to the god.