There are so questions to answer...

Rating: 10/10 (4 April 2012)

Is very hard to say something new about this film, because I am trying to talk about a filmmaker who doesn't care which genre: horror movie, war movie, sci-fi... whatever to make a masterpiece. The thing is that Kubrick worked with Clarke to adapt Clarke's short story. What we have in front of as after seen the film is an amazing chaos of questions, about the movie and about life itself and mankind. What is the monolith is one of the most famous questions: maybe a signal from another kind of life more evolved that humans when we just were monkeys!!, or is it God, for some is a cinema screen... You can try to guess and probably nobody can tell you you are wrong because Kubrick himself never told there was just one right interpretation. What's mean the final scene? Another popular question, probably in this case we need to think about the destiny of humanity, there will be another stage in evolution, we will be just extinguished or we will be another kind of entities. You can think about of a lot of interpretations in almost every scene, you can see this film once an again and never find one lonely answer. One of the brilliant merits of this work is make you keep on thinking. We can add as well the fact that Kubrick takes care about make a plausible environment of space: there's no sound in the outer space, the pen ball rolling without gravity, the doctor reading a complicated instructions for going to the toilets... In addition the soundtrack is amazing and the special effects for the 1968 were so great to be awarded with an Oscar. There are so many questions, so many answers and so many thinking...