Kubrick Was Inspired by Angels

Rating: Null/10 (20 January 2002)

2001 is a film that has affected me in a profound way, and I've recently realized that I don't know, nor do I want to know why. Before the words your reading now this review was a jargonous attempt at making sense of a film that had changed my perception in a radical way. But recently, and for no apparent reason, I was hit with a series of questions. One,... why? Two,... did it matter? And three,... were all those ridiculous interpretations really responsible for the emotion and awe this film inspired in me?
And so, as I can not delete my previous review, I write this now. As an example of pure cinema as possibility, I really feel that 2001 should not be limited, but expanded. Perhaps the larger and greater we make it, the closer we come to why and how it effects us so. Is it merely the symbolic shape of a space ship, or the vast wonder of not knowing, not being able to explain or control the feelings invoked? 2001 has raised film, ART, to heights far greater than anything achieved before or since. It is film as a visual, aural, and emotional expirience that transcends verbal thought. It captures the wonder man must have felt when he first looked up to the stars.
So please, if and when you come to a review title "2001: The Greatest Work of Art Ever Created By Cultured Man," skip over it.