what does it mean?

Question

what is the point of the movie "2001:SPACE ODDESSY"

Answer 1

Mankind's technological advance, guess.
Watch part 2 too if you want to fully undesrtand the story... but it's far not as good as Kubrick's movie.

Answer 2

The first chapter of 2001 takes place in the late Pliocene Epoch, and concerns a critical event in the evolution of prehistoric "man-apes." It contains no dialogue at all. The film focuses on a group of "man-apes" who encounter a Monolith, an object completely alien to them. After this encounter, the man-apes learn to use tools to attack prey for food and other man-apes in the conquest of territory.

In a match cut often described as one of the most famous shots of motion picture history, a victorious man-ape throws a bone into the air and the film jumps forward to the modern era, the image of the bone matched to that of a man-made satellite.

The remainder of the film takes place in a near-future time (presumably around the year 2001, as the film's title suggests). We follow the actions of a scientist or politician named Dr. Heywood Floyd as he travels to the United States' Moon-base "Clavius" to examine the discovery of a mysterious alien object—another Monolith that exactly resembles the original Monolith discovered by the prehistoric man-apes. Dressed in spacesuits, Floyd and other scientists are touching the Monolith and posing for photos in front of it when a piercing tone strikes them all, presumably emanating from the Monolith itself.

Before any explanation is offered for the Monolith's tone, the movie jumps forward once again to its third chapter entitled "Jupiter Mission: Eighteen Months Later." The story here takes place on the spaceship Discovery One which has been sent on a scientific mission to the planet Jupiter. An entirely new mystery develops aboard this spaceship, apparently unrelated to the story of mankind discovering the Monolith: the intelligent computer aboard Discovery One, HAL 9000, rebels against the crew and murders all but one of them. The surviving astronaut, Dave Bowman, remains alive through a remarkable feat of ingenuity involving being ejected from a personal space vehicle without a helmet to protect his head. He manages to shut down the HAL 9000 and upon doing so a recorded video message from Dr. Heywood Floyd plays, describing the discovery of the Monolith to him and explaining that it sent a radio transmission to Jupiter.

At this moment the film jumps to the final sequence entitled "Jupiter And Beyond The Infinite." This is where the famous "cosmic light show" of the film, often labeled the "Stargate" sequence, takes place, as Dave Bowman arrives at Jupiter and encounters a Monolith (whether this is the same Monolith is unclear). Upon this encounter Dave is transported across vast distances of space and/or time, arriving in an earth-like hotel room, whereupon he is shown to age with great speed and finally undergo a transformation into a being that has become known to audiences as the "Star Child".

Answer 3

The movie definately messes with your head but luckily my roomate happenend to be w/ me and guided me thru.
Without him I would be soooooooooooo looooooooost....
Dave battling it out w/ H.A.L. gets me all goosepimply all over!

There is a link that explains the movie.....

Answer 4

man's journey from primate to god-like creature with the help of alien creatures but thats just one take on it, there are so many others

Answer 5

Read the book. It makes much more sense.

Answer 6

Sharing the outer world...........