A movie that you must watch once every ten years of your life

Rating: 10/10 (13 February 2020)

Like many of the negative viewers here, I found this movie extremely boring and meaningless at first. That was when i was in my 20's. Now Im 50 and think I'm beginning to get it. This movie shows contrast btw material universe out there and the spiritual universe we find inside ourselves
In material universe, science-based man is tiny and helpless. We are lesser than a grain of sand and this frightful situation is thoroughly expressed when Frank and David is out there in the stars and the only noise you hear in the entire universe is yoursrlf breathing in and out. Then at the end of the movie Dave enters into a diferent type of Universe where you dont need a space halmet or fuel to travel. He finds his true self, the one who is forever constant and forever noticing, which is constantly there watching even when he turns old or lies in his deathbed. Then he is born again into a new body, a body made up of energy and returns to Earth.
The message this film presents is very deep & spiritual and this is carried out using breathtaking cinematography.
It basically depicts a grand scale process of evolution of mankind, and the monolith,, whether it is a gift from some more advanced civil from outer space or GOD himself, was always there to assist it on important moments. It was there in the dawn of mankind when the APEMAN learned to use tool and elevated himself to become MAN. The man then builds a beautiful civilization based on material, but as HAL episode demonstrates,
it has its limits and dangers. At the peak of material civilization the monolith calls man once again from Jupiter, this time to elevate man to becoming a SUPERMAN, to become something like the half transparent light-being a Jedi knight becomes after 'death' in the Star Wars series. He needs no material tools to travel space and returns triumphant back to Earth.
I think it is an absolutely amazing film that grows on you throughout your lifetime and I recommend watching it at least once every decade in your life.