2001 Space Odyssey Analysis
The movie 2001: Space Odyssey directed by Stanley Kubrick is about Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial object buried beneath the lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest. This movie is a story all about the path of evolution and how time has progressed. There are many conflicts that occur in this timeless classic like how man was created, the evolution on technology, and the rebirth. The out of place curious apes discover the first tool on the earth, but in the end of this major discovery leads to destruction. This scene opens up about four million years ago in the African desert with a clan of curious and fearful apes. The apes are in constant competition with each other or the other group of animals that are among them. As the apes awake from their chilling and fearful slumber they
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So the rebirth themes of 2001 seem to be related purely to intellect and its application for survival. After the apes have their intellectual rebirth experience, they are seen outside the cave entrance at night - unafraid of the dark. Before they encountered the monolith they were shown hiding in the cave and fearing the night. In the first shot we see what is the moon, the Earth and then finally a full view of the sun. In the final shot we see the moon then the Earth then the starchild. Being that the sun has been historically linked to enlightenment the “star” child obviously represents the sun, bringing enlightenment to his home planet. Throughout the out of this world movie The Space Odyssey 2001 a major theme is evolution and how far the world has come. The evolution theory implies that humanity is not the final goal of this process. There is more to be seen in the world than what this movie implies. Life is a never ending cycle and will continue from time to
So the rebirth themes of 2001 seem to be related purely to intellect and its application for survival. After the apes have their intellectual rebirth experience, they are seen outside the cave entrance at night - unafraid of the dark. Before they encountered the monolith they were shown hiding in the cave and fearing the night. In the first shot we see what is the moon, the Earth and then finally a full view of the sun. In the final shot we see the moon then the Earth then the starchild. Being that the sun has been historically linked to enlightenment the “star” child obviously represents the sun, bringing enlightenment to his home planet. Throughout the out of this world movie The Space Odyssey 2001 a major theme is evolution and how far the world has come. The evolution theory implies that humanity is not the final goal of this process. There is more to be seen in the world than what this movie implies. Life is a never ending cycle and will continue from time to