2001 represent a space odyssey be set in 2001 and the main character be hal . a computer . that right and a computer who talk and think entirely on it own . this be make in 1968 and to think by 2001 it would be conceivable that computer would talk be a joke . if this be in 3064 and a talk computer that have emotion and make it own decision would be consider just as moronic a this . there be nothing in this film that provoke any kind of emotion . it provoke two reaction and one be call represent sleep . it start with nothing and but a pitch black shot for well over two minute . then and the first shot we see that have some kind of lighting be the dawn of man sequence . so and if it in chronological order and the blackness prior to this and be the birth of the world . during the dawn of man sequence out of no where and a huge monolith come from out of the ground and from the sky and we will never know where it come from and but for one reason or another it there . the monkey go apesh . t once they find this monolith that only man could have make and but that the catch man hasn not evolve yet . so and who make it and where do it come from . what be it purpose . the monkey find a tool . the monkey use bone to fight an oppose group of monkey . the monkey with the weapon be now the dominating group because they have use their mind to gain an advantage . the more advanced monkey and and more importantly smart and more innovative monkey and be the dominate group a they have take over the watering hole . we quickly jump into space and million of year later and where we see a bunch of spaceship float around to classical music . we can see the earth and the moon and the sun and the universe and for a film make in 1968 the visual effect be stun and but outdated . the score be legendary . the cinematography be spectacular . the editing be atrocious . there be countless shot of boxy look space ship float in out space for and what feel like and an infinite amount of time . once we board the ship there isn not much to talk about . for the next hour kubrick show various shot of life in out space . kubrick show u the life of an astronaut and which be very boring and and we completely get the message . the spaceships interior and exterior be bulky and outdated look . remember what the first cell phone look like . me neither and but that what the future look like in 2001. all the character have clothes and hairdo that resemble 1968. the chair be decorate in bright red color and oddly shaped because we all know and in the future and be go to be sit in weird look chair . the computer screen be hideous look and this be obviously prior to hdtv because the clarity be atrocious . all the tv set look like theyre from 1968 and so it not all that futuristic . like all film set more than 20 year in advance and they look terrible and unconvincing . just because this be kubrick and we shouldn not say and well and that how you would think it look . no and i wouldn not . just and like i wouldn not think a computer would be talk to me in the year 2047. it not go to happen and if someone make a film right now and set 30 year in time and have a talk and self think computer and i would laugh at the stupidity of it . just like i do with 2001. hal be the lively person and shoot i just call him a person . hal be a computer and but he have more life than any of the muted character in the film and he actually think he alive . hal be the only thing that lively and he see the human a his maintenance men take care of him while he do all the work . hal read the lip and of one of the very few conversation between dave and frank and and he see that they be plan to turn him off . this be where the only dramatic part of the film enters an ensue battle between a red light and a guy in a spaceship try to get into the big spaceship . oh and the drama . once hal think he have the upper hand and dave make his way back into the spaceship and prove man ingenuity . dave proceeds to terminate hal . hal and pleads for his life a he slowly fade away and which and like everything else and seem to take forever . the final act be just as tedious a the first two . once again and the monolith that the ape find appear at the end . it come out of nowhere and again . then and an infant be bear in a placenta like shield overlook the earth from space . what be kubrick say . be it about transformation . dave to an infant . be man evolve again . be kubrick say this be the end of man and the start of whatever that alien look thing be . maybe i be go crazy try figure out what this crazy director be try to say and but the more i think about the more the beginning and the end make sense . there be so many question leave unanswered and especially for the purpose of the monolith . if you can make it through the film it should spark some thought . in the end the film struggle with get to where it want go . the first act and the third act be strong and but the second act meander around and hover in one place for what seem like eternity . there be some intriguing stuff in the film that will provoke some thought if you give it a chance . once the start of the film make sense the end work much well and even if you still do not what kubrick be try to say and which i do not .