This film is the best thing I've seen since Hitchcock

Rating: 10/10 (15 December 2006)

Artistic genius, stirring story, and engrossing soundtrack. This film had it all. The upsetting thing about the film, is that to many idiots don't understand the piece. It's sad to see people walk out on a piece of this caliber because they can't grasp the artistic cinematography. If you don't want to think and be engrossed into a film, go watch some action movie.
With the artistic style used in 2001 (the way the did the art), it was a beautifully done piece. The images were amazing, and perfectly done for the type of film it was. I'm very very happy to see the lack of CGI, even though I myself went to school for computer graphics. The lack of sound, made this soundtrack perfect. It was genius how David pulled the watcher into the emotions of Hugh by cutting the sound, absolutely no ambient sound, just Hugh walking, or perfect silence, brilliant. And the story line, pulling you through his mind dealing with the loss of his wife, at first being distraught and not wanting to lose her, then fighting with the very nature of life and wanting to find a way to cure death, then finally realizing and accepting that she was still a part of the world and accepting that by planting the tree, it was very moving and perfect for the artistic feeling of the film.