The summit of the sci-fi genre,Stanley Kubrick amazes again.

Rating: 10/10 (29 June 1999)

What is the role of the human beings on the surface of the globe so called as Earth? There may be a lot of answers for that question from different point of views.
As related to this question Stanley Kubrick gives the answer of his own that we really must not care about it is true or not because there is no proper answer for this specific question. How does Stanley Kubrick achieve to answer to this really philosophic and hard question.
We see animals that we are familiar with that we call monkeys or apes. Till the appearance of the black monument or stone these creatures are animals but just after the monument some can say God sends the human on earth or some others can say evolution starts because these creatures start to use bones. As an incredible sequence the bone as the symbol of the most primitive gadget turns out to be a space craft as the symbol of the latest or the final technology. We skip all the part about how the human beings reached that technology. In this film S. Kubrick just shows us the beginning and the end of the human evolution and of course shows us the things "beyond infinity". In fact as we stated above S.K. does not really answer the question that we stated above as well. He just shows us his perception of life and man and he wants us to give our own answers.
This fact is the aspect that makes this film a classic or the summit of the sci-fi genre. This philosophical density of the film does not hinder the visual effectiveness of the film. All the sequences fully satisfies a viewer looking forward visuality, in fact it does amaze the viewer. Some of these sequences make the film unforgettable; the scene that apes faces the monument or the man discovers the function of bone or the scene that Dave kills HAL or and or and or..
Finally Kubrick makes a film that really contains a really hard-to-deal-with subject and incredible visuality and music usage. When the man starts to create he passes through the borders of the infinity.