This Stanley Kubrick movie written in tandem with Arthur C Clarke was a cultural milestone. The highest grossing movie of 1968 the movie was a huge success and continues to be considered as one of the most momentous films ever released.
For me, it was a miss. Maybe I am not deep enough, maybe not knowing what to expect and getting less than anticpated, whatever it was it just was weird.
Kubrick tried to accomplish much without dialogue. The first scene entitled The Dawn of Man had no dialogue as it centered on apes. The last scene as well featured no dialogue as well.
The central question of the movie are the monoliths. They appear in pretime, our found on the moon, in space outside Jupiter and then at the end of our astronaut's bed. They are not explained.
Nothing is explained. Hal was interesting. The computer that has gone crazy and the references to Hal are all through are cultural. Clearly the movie has been cultarlly relevant.
However for me it was a serious disappointment. I just did not get it.
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