While watching 2001 A Space Odyssey for the first time, I could not decide whether I should keep watching, fall asleep, or keep it in the background while I tried to find out why it was liked so much. Now I'm not saying this movie was bad. I realize it was not made for my generation (my teacher likes to call it the "MTV" generation) and that it was even out of the boundary's of its own generation but it still managed to entertain me in some ways. It made me drowsy, it made me wonder, it made me curious, and it made me confused. It led me to these forums because for some reason I really need to discuss this film.
Hopefully there are some people on these forums who have watched this movie and have enjoyed it because thats who I'm looking for. I knew from the beginning of this movie that it wasn't going to be like the the two Die Hard movies I watched before it. The first 25 minutes made me reconsider what I was getting myself into. So instead of trying to find a little scrap of entertainment I tried to interpret the movies message and understand it's story.
Ok... so it's the year 2001. Mankind has improved it's knowledge in space travel and is venturing off beyond the moon. An object is focused on greatly in the beginning of the movie and at the end during the Jupiter sequence. It appears on earth, the moon, and Jupiter. I'm pretty sure this object is a probe created by an intelligent race of aliens which can create copies of itself and sprout off on to other planets.(for exploration purposes) This I understand. I also understand that the HAL 9000 part of the movie was to show that humans had created a being capable of emotions and thinking that it resembled them in many ways. Thats why I felt sadness during the scene where Dave(I think) was shutting HAL down. The only part about the movie which I did not understand was the very last part where Dave goes onto Jupiter? Is that what he does? Thats the thing... I'm not sure. At first I thought he took some LSD or something and I just missed it. My question is... what the hell was going on during that... let call it "eye ball" scene! Someone please explain it to me.
Edit: Ahhhh!... didn't realize I went on for so long. Guess you got some reading to do .
Hopefully there are some people on these forums who have watched this movie and have enjoyed it because thats who I'm looking for. I knew from the beginning of this movie that it wasn't going to be like the the two Die Hard movies I watched before it. The first 25 minutes made me reconsider what I was getting myself into. So instead of trying to find a little scrap of entertainment I tried to interpret the movies message and understand it's story.
Ok... so it's the year 2001. Mankind has improved it's knowledge in space travel and is venturing off beyond the moon. An object is focused on greatly in the beginning of the movie and at the end during the Jupiter sequence. It appears on earth, the moon, and Jupiter. I'm pretty sure this object is a probe created by an intelligent race of aliens which can create copies of itself and sprout off on to other planets.(for exploration purposes) This I understand. I also understand that the HAL 9000 part of the movie was to show that humans had created a being capable of emotions and thinking that it resembled them in many ways. Thats why I felt sadness during the scene where Dave(I think) was shutting HAL down. The only part about the movie which I did not understand was the very last part where Dave goes onto Jupiter? Is that what he does? Thats the thing... I'm not sure. At first I thought he took some LSD or something and I just missed it. My question is... what the hell was going on during that... let call it "eye ball" scene! Someone please explain it to me.
Edit: Ahhhh!... didn't realize I went on for so long. Guess you got some reading to do .