i enjoyed it but have no idea what it meant
2007-03-25 06:34:43 · 9 answers · asked by mike w 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
2001 is a story about humanity's (assisted) evolution as a species, and humanity's innate curiosity and drive to reach out to the stars and beyond.
The movie has four distinct sections--the first shows a troup of proto-hominids discovering and being changed by an extra-terrestrial object into tool-and-weapon users.
The second section demonstrates what that evolutionary step produced--an earth surrounded by orbiting satellites and weaponry, where humanity is taking its first steps into space; the discovery of an et artifact deliberately buried on the moon triggers 1) the realization that humanity is not alone in the cosmos, 2) the sending of a signal from the artifact into space, which (unknown to humaity) signals the ets that humanity is getting ready for the next step in their evolution, and 3) the launch of a mission from earth to investigate the source of the signal.
The third section of the film is the story of the mission from earth, showing the men on board the ship, and their dependence and reliance on their own technology, which in turn has taken a proportionate amount of their own humanity from them--the mission is nearly destroyed when the controlling ship's computer has a very human nervous breakdown. It is finally when David Bowman, the survivor, "kills" the computer's higher functions and sets out from the ship on his own that he can travel "through the dimensional gate" of the far-orbiting et artifact to journey through
--the film's fourth section: David travels through, time, space and the fabric of the cosmos to arrive at his final human experience---a construct created from his own mind by the ets, in which, in a matter of moments, he lives out the rest of his life, and then takes one more step in evolution---David becomes an entirely new, god-like life-form--he finds himself back in orbit around earth--somehow, he has suddenly erased all the orbiting destruction around his world---he is a Star Child, but his eyes are opening and he is ready to take his first steps, to continue his journey into his own future.
One of the world's greatest movies.
2007-03-25 07:41:08 · answer #1 · answered by Palmerpath 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Glad I'm not the only 1
2007-03-29 02:47:18 · answer #2 · answered by Weed 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
to me i think change, think about this if you could see the moment where something changes from one thing to another. eg at the start of the film we see our ancienter then we see the black square, its at that moment we see our ancienter using tools and weapons on each other. the black square is the moment where we learn to use our brains. things don't go on forever something happens where change comes and if you could see that moment happening it will quiet cool.
2007-03-25 10:33:48 · answer #3 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life, The Universe and everything.
2007-03-25 06:38:53 · answer #4 · answered by Birdman 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Palmerpath has answered your question - the only thing I can add is that I suggest you read the book.....a bit more explanation there.
2007-03-27 08:37:24 · answer #5 · answered by twentieth_century_refugee 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I totally loved it - but was slightly confused! , I suppose we can all take away our own individual meaning, plus if you enjoyed the film it shouldn't matter weather you understood the 'true meaning'.
2007-03-25 11:37:33 · answer #6 · answered by mandalay 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The black monolith is responsible for our evolution.
(or it's something Homer Simpson can scratch his back on.)
2007-03-25 07:46:47 · answer #7 · answered by belickcat 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
there are various interpretations of the film.
follow the link to read a bit more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretations_of_2001:_A_Space_Odyssey
2007-03-25 06:39:19 · answer #8 · answered by dave a 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kinda left me hanging too.
2007-03-25 06:53:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋