2001: A Space Odyssey

🎶hereeeeee am i floating round my tin can??? farrrrr above the mooon 🎶 this film did inspire one of my favourite songs. too bad the singer got turned into a inter-dimensional travelling kettle. this film was so ahead of its time. like imagine being around in 1968 before the moon landing and watching this in the cinema. the film completely predicted the rise of ai (also hal’s voice makes my skin crawl and that daisy song scene made me so uncomfortable) the soundtrack is unbelievable and a lot of the shots in this are absolutely beautiful. the sequence where dave is travelling through dimensions (i think) is one of the best sequences i’ve ever seen in a film, and it is really reminiscent of part 8 of twin peaks the return (the greatest season of television ever created btw) here’s my interpretation of the film: the monoliths are catalysts for evolution, as the cause the apes to create tools and evolve into humans. as humans discovered a monolith on the moon, hal9000 was created (another tool) to find another monolith on jupiter. as dave finds this, he is transported through time and space before ending up back on earth and watching himself age. just before he dies, a monolith appears above his bed and he evolves and is reborn as a higher life form, approaching earth, maybe to search for another monolith. as a whole this film was beautiful, and clearly a big step for cinema as a whole. the only thing i didnt really love about this film was the sequence with dr hayward, as i don’t think it added much to the film.