Introduction 2001: A Space Odyssey is a timeless movie by Stanley Kubrick created in the late 1960s. This is a story of human evolution, not in the classic understanding of it, but the one that shows a huge step that people have taken in developing technology. However, there is a deeper idea that bounds the progress of humanity with a potential extraterrestrial force that gives origins to the religious beliefs of nations (Bradshaw para. 1). The movie became a discovery of its time with artistic and technical tools that helped to transfer the main idea to viewers. 2001: A Space Odyssey is a great example of how art can be used to describe world composition to an audience. Scene Summary The movie begins with a scene called The Dawn of Man . Early people that resemble modern apes like gorillas or chimpanzees gather in a cave. At some point, they wake up to discover the tall black rock of a rectangular shape mounting in front of their settlement. People become interested in rock and start jumping around it. This monolith, as it is called later in the movie, scares people, but they are eager to touch it being led by curiosity. The next scene shows one of the early people from this group pass by a skeleton of an animal. He picks up a bone and starts to smash the whole skeleton with it. The entire action is followed by triumphal music. Cultural Importance Technologies of the 1960s cannot be compared to the moderns means of creating films. In a particular way, 2001: A Space Odyssey made a revolution by implementing special effects that were new and unknown to the majority of filmmakers (Poole 39). For example, the Star Gate sequence that showed splashes of light changing each other became a revolutionary visual effect that took many efforts to be created. However, the described scene does not feature any space scenes, the costumes of early people resemble the real apes. Stanley Kubrick, the director of the film, is widely known for his ability to discuss things without directly speaking of them. All his arthouse works feature music that creates long pauses allowing viewers to better feel a setting and ideas behind each scene. Kubrick’s strong focus on visual effects brought him an Oscar for 2001: A Space Odyssey after the movie’s release. Genre Description 2001: A Space Odyssey belongs to the genre of science fiction, commonly referred to as sci-fi. Its main features include the use of technology for various reasons that are generally fantastical. For instance, there are plots including time or space traveling, civilizations on other planets, or the existence of alien creatures (Mills para. 1). This type of movie usually takes the ideas that already exist in the literature. The interesting feature of the sci-fi film genre is that it often shows the future infrastructure of people being more developed than it proves to be when the time comes. For instance, 2001: A Space Odyssey features developed space stations and computers running on the principle of artificial intelligence. The movie was released in 1968, yet currently, humanity does not possess technologies described in it. The primary aim of science fiction is to tell a story of adventures, to show people what the world could be like with technological advancement, and to argue whether the fundamental principles of humankind will remain