Elevating Tool of the Mind

Rating: 10/10 (19 June 2000)

Gosh! There are over 200 comments on this film! What can I say? Who will read this? Anyway after have been reading almost all comments, some very excellent and full of insight, on a late night cruising on the internet I felt very much to see this my favorite movie once again. When I was about 18, I- a solitare searcher, entered a huge cinema here in stockholm to experience this feature which had managed to been repeatedly shown once a year since `68. "-The movie that became a religion" said the taglines. When the lights was turned on again I was simply illuminated. At last I have seen a film by someone that spoke to me directly as in a wordless language from mind to mind. This was for me. And I laughed, because I "understood" it completely. From the Dawn-prologue to the Great Transformation in the end. I was turned on, high from this journey of infinite information and poetry, not on any psychedelics. I suddenly turned my sight to the rest of the audience. Surprise! Most of the faces around me looked bitter and disappointed. They didnt seem to have an idea of what they have been witnessed. Then I felt that I was someone special. Everytime I have seen it I have encountered new thoughts in my head, new implications. The strangest thing about the film is, besides that it ever was alloud to be made, that it wasnt banned officially. But its too open for different explanations, religios and ateistic, to be seen as a threat itself. Because I know now, as I have understood who Kubrick was, that 2001 IS the Monolith! Kubrick knew that in this world called Earth, there is something very enigmatic about Our Evolution. Something weird about the whole thing which both links us with the rest of Life here AND seperates Us from it. We are the monsters but can also be the Gods. And the closer we come to the fearsome answer the more we start suppressing it. Our harmonic relationship with the environment in our early evolutionary stages was interrupted by flashes of sudden information that created Culture but also confusion and Fear. Fear creates aggression and violence. The evolution of Culture is never explored by Kubrick because he wanted to focus on the story on the technical advancement opposite the nonprogressive Mind of Man. Those guys in space never seem to understand anything about themself until they meet the next Monolith. This is the story of the most forbidden source of information and tool for progression of Understanding about the Loss of Fear to gain Peace between Us and Everything else in the Universe. And technics alone - without Enlightment, as the tool HAL never need to inherit moral codes of A Humans Spirit, always leads to selfdestruction directly or indirectly. Bowmans subjective journey through the wonders of the universe, his Lifeend and finally his transformation to a new elevated Entity was the result of his going through the Big Trip - all the way. The forbidden Apple was not exactly an apple in reality but where it came from and how it got here is the next questions to find out about. Well, this was my oppinion about this mindaltering film which is much more than a film. Its a statement, philosophical and poetic and I how can I thank the Late Mr Kubrick enough for letting me experience the void of space, the birth of stars and nebulas and the Great Beginning of Our Own Future? Where else can we go, if not to destroy everything that has existed here for 5 billions of years? The most Optimistic and Visionary film ever concieved. Thanks for reading this, my friend.