After watching 2001 A Space Odyssey I had to think about the movie for
a long time to understand what it was about. At first I thought it was the strangest
movie I have ever watched and it did not portray any point at all. But after
thinking about the movie I realized it was about technology advancement. The
apes would fight another tribe of apes for resources. Then a magical rock appeared
and made one of the apes smart enough to use a bone for a weapon after the ape
touched the rock. Then the next scene in the movie shows the new technology of the
bone club being used for the first time when the ape tribe kills the other
tribe’s leader. Then it fast forwards to humans finding the magical rock on the
moon and when the humans touch the rock, the technological advancement of artificial
intelligence happens. Artificial intelligence by the name of Hau 9000 is shown piloting
a space ship in the next scene. After Hau 9000 blames his diagnostic error on
the humans and reads their lips saying they will shut him off. Hau 9000 tries
to kill them which relates to the ape tribe with a greater technological
advancement attacking the other tribe to prove who is superior. Then the movie
fast forwards to an astronaut in another dimension where he ages extremely
fast. When the astronaut is on his deathbed and about to die the magical rock
appears and turns him into a baby. Which shows the evolution of immortality. Each
scene in the movie is showing the advancement of technology whenever something touches
the magical rock. In my opinion the movie was silly but it does have a good
point that in the end our technology advancements will lead to immortality. I
know that there was no technological advancement made in the last scene when
the magical rock turns the old astronaut into a baby but it is possible that at
the end the old man telepathically controlled the magical rock.
Hey Alexander, After reading your post i felt the same way I had to stop and process everything bit by bit. I don;t know about you but I thought this movie was strange, but a good strange. I don't usually like Sci-fi movies but I must admit this was an interesting film. I think the theme of this movie ties back to what we had discussed n class which we mentioned evolution and space exploration.
ReplyDeleteHey, the movie was also extremely confusing to me and your post literally made me go "OH so that's what happened!" The apes fighting one another was definitely weird and I did not understand what was happening. I'm glad I read your post cause now things seem a bit clearer.
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