Thursday 21 June 2012

Stanley Kubrick

The movie 2001: A Space Odyssey is a psychedelic and artistic piece of cinema as well as art. It transcends beyond art, cinema, genres or filmmaking. It is pure genius of the director Stanley Kubrick. This is the best example of sci-fi genre in its excellence and a though of a lifetime. This is considered of the most misunderstood or rather least understood piece of cinema. Even Stanley Kubrick said that any piece of art has its genuineness and every person has its own explanation of it.  Likewise this film is so mind boggling that one may rather watch gay twink videos than this.

It starts with the advent of life in this planet or rather the rise of man or the development of apes within earth. A strange monolith is planted in the earth which makes the apes wise and self dependent. The nest part shows million years later the same monolith is found on the moon in an excavation but it was realised that it was placed there many years ago and it’s not of the native place. The third part deals with the mission of Jupiter where a spacecraft controlled by a supercomputer HAL 9000 goes on quest of finding the secrets. Here it has shown the dominance of man over machine by simply the application of brain.


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