And it's a testament to the profound impact that director Stanley Kubrick's space epic has had on popular culture that a masterwork by a German composer has become the symphonic equivalent of pop music. Directors from around the world voted it one of the 10 greatest films ever made in a 1992 poll in the British magazine Sight and Sound. Mr. Kubrick's films have the visual and ideological coherency that signify an artist, not merely a film- maker. Even the music is carefully chosen to serve Mr. Kubrick's intellectual purposes. In this case it was philosopher Freidrich Nietzsche's work of the same name.
Souls are as mortal as bodies.
But the complex of causes in which I am entangled will recur - it will create me again. I myself am part of these causes of the eternal recurrence. The ideas are the same, from text to music to film. The first time the theme is heard in the film is just before the Dawn of Man sequence, in which the evolution of man is set in motion by a mysterious black monolith. His films are about walls.