It's essentially about food...

Rating: Null/10 (27 November 2000)

Well, ok, it's more about transformation, in the obvious theme of extraterrestrial manipulation of the human race. But if you watch the movie and keep track of the appearance of food, you see that "mealtime" occurs in every major scene and the plot sometimes revolves around it. Just off the top of my head: cavemen fighting over meat, food service during shuttle flight, sandwiches on moon shuttle, space food on Jupiter vessel, fancy dinner during climactic transformation. There are probably more occurrences. I understand Kubrick was pretty anal, and includes bathrooms/toilets in all his movies. This is no exception, and food ties in to this obsession.