spoiler ahead . 2001 represent a space odyssey be without a doubt the most challenging and successful film by the late stanley kubrick . this be not a film that you watch in order to be entertain or amuse . instead it provide you with a banquet of food for thought and image that linger in the mind eye long after the movie itself be over . it be a film that you could meditate on . the film intentionally offer u more question then it can answer and it be make to puzzle and mystify and but leave the viewer nevertheless with a sense of awe and reverence ( that be allow that he have engage himself in the process of view it and enjoyment of this film require some effort on the viewer part ) the question that it do pose be large and ominous and concern the genesis and destiny of the human race and it ultimate place in the cosmic design and the existence or lack of some creative intelligence behind the structure of the universe itself . the first of the film four quartet give u a distinct view of the specie past . we see our distant ancestor and half ape half human and in a state of near starvation . the climate have destroy most of the plant life and the vegetarian beast be near starvation . an extra terestial object and a perfectly smooth and angular black monolith and appear and the animal be simultaneously inspire by it presence to tool making and violence . they be transformed overnight into carnevores and and when two tribe encounter each other near a water source and the tribe that have develop tool make capacity and as well a beligerence and soundly destroy the neighboring tribe . the new chief of the win tribe and empower by the first vestige of technology triumphantly throw the bone that he use a a weapon in the air . we see the bone transform into a float satellite and which contain nuclear weapon . we soon learn that the world be torn apart by nuclear paranoia . the characteristic inspire by the monument appearance that once help u to survive now threaten our very existence . once again humanity be in crisis and once again the unearthly presence represent by the black monolith will step in to aid humanity in the next step in it development . on an exploration of the moon a monolith identical to the early one we have see be discover . the government of the world and normally mortal enemy and have come together in secret to discuss the implication . a mission be arrange . the monument have be engage in some kind of radio communication with jupiter . a few men will travel to the destination of the transmission . most of them will and for most of the time and be keep in a state of suspended animation . the pilot of the spacecraft will be hal a super computer who have be program to imitate all of the trait of human being . the film have many outstanding sequence . a usual for kubrick the use of classical music be outstanding . most memorable be blue danube and also spake zarathustra ( particularly appropriate give the film theme of transcend ordinary consciousness . ) the cinematography be particularly excellent a well and after a single view the film final 30 minute will haunt you for the rest of your life . the character of hal be the most important from the view of the film central thesis . in imitate all the characteristic of human being he come to have their negative trait as well . the paranoia he develop which almost lead to the mission s ruin be an exact mirror of the paranoia that have allow the political situation back on earth to reach a point of desperate crisis . the film suggest that these be the trait that we must leave behind if we be to proceed to the next phase in our evolution . the architecture of the film be also meaningful . the design of many of the spacecraft be intend to suggest reproductive organ and the process of birth and rebirth and the central motif of the movie . the end of 2001 be the most spectacular and triumphant ever film . this movie take a view of life similar to that present in the poetry of william butler yeats and james joyce novel finnegan wake . it posit a pattern to history and human evolution that be cyclic and yet progressive and repeat the same event at large interval and yet with the human race a develop accord to the will of a be with a large purpose in mind . though we never learn what this purpose be and the film assure u that the human race be not mean for failure and it destiny be grand beyond it capacity to imagine . it continue to amaze me that in spite of this film many people continue to regard kubrick a a misanthrope . this be a religious film and not in the conventional sense of adhere to any specific creed and but because of it invocation of wonder at the vast panorama of existence and it involvement with the deepest and most vital question of purpose and truth . in the hand of any other director and this would all be perhaps a little too much . hollywood view of life be too puny and usually to encompass the grandeur and intensity of a vision such a this one . but kubrick be a visionary and he direct with utter confidence and not only that he can handle material of this kind and but that he be the only one to do it . the process of make this film use all of his creative resource . the write partnership with arthur c clarke be the most fruitful in cinematic history . kubrick have to invent some of the special effect that be use in the movie astound climax . the resource to bring his vision to life do not exist at the time and so he bring them into existence . 2001 be a absolutely unique movie experience . those who miss out on it do so at the detriment of their own intellectual and imaginative capacity .