you simply don't watch it, you experience it.

Rating: 10/10 (11 July 2012)

Stanley Kubrick '2001 a space odyssey' is a surrealistic, audacious and ambiguous journey into the concepts of mankind. The films plot is quite simply, humanity discover monolith on the moon and set out on a journey to Jupiter to discover the monolith origin.
The opening sequence consist of black motionless screen while disconcerting music plays which brilliantly establishes the mood for a journey into the unknown, directly after this we are introduced to the first act 'the dawn of man', which portrays the beginning of mankind through a Darwinism approach by using primal ancestors and how the monolith provides the intelligence for the primal individual to use a bone for a weapon, the first form of technology. Furthermore this scene contains the most audacious editing sequence, which consist of the primal figure throwing his bone into the air and then cuts to a ship floating in space which captivates Kubrick ideas on the advancement of technology in the future.
What Kubrick has created in this film is cinema at it's purest, like silent films, '2001 a space odyssey' creates it's storytelling through use of visuals and music, which is beautifully highlighted through this next sequence of spaceships contrasted with classical music, the sequence oozes grace like a moving painting.
while there is so much to talk about the answer is quite simple, Kubrick '2001' is undoubtedly one of the best films ever made and offers, which is rarely found elsewhere, an experience of the unknown and the meditation of mankind.