Wednesday, January 7, 2009

2001 Space Odyssey


This movie is seriously one of the most bizarre films I have seen for a while now. It really caught me off guard, I was expecting more of a interacting with aliens because mostly every sci-fi movie interacts with the new discovery. This movie did more of a evolution discovery. In the beginning of the movie the first living organism that are introduce are primates. They act like any other primates now in time, but when a primate touches the monolith that apears it seem like by touching it he because more intelligent. why? because soon the primate learns a tool, this tool is a weapon. He finds the remaining bones of an animal and he uses one bone and starts smashing the rest of the bones on the ground. With this new discovery he goes back to where all the primates are at, and he uses this bone as a weapon and uses to kill another primate. Throughout this movie what struck me most is this monolith. There are three monolith through this movie and thats what surprise me becuase each one of them was use differently in my opinion. Each time there was a new one it was just harder and harder to understand.

After that act with the primate, the rest of them scenes take most on space. They are on this ship and they are on a mission. There seems to be no emotion through out all the characters that were in the movie. I started to realize this because, 1. There is not much dialogue in this movie, so it was easier to catch one. 2. Sam Lewis stated something that I strongly agree, there was a scene where a man was talking to his daughter from a long distance web cam talk, either the daughter and father said any emotion through the talk, not even an "I Love You". There seems to be no emotion until someone, or this something called the Hal 9,000. It's this robot that is charger of pretty much everything that works around there. At one point the main character feel like they don't need him/it around because they don't feel like its on their side, so they're at a point where Hal 9,000 isn't able to hear anything they are saying so they star planning on how they are going to get rid of him by disconnecting him. But Hal 9,000 is much smarter than they think he is, they didn't know that Hal 9,000 can read their lips, so what Hal 9,000 does is keep it to himself until both characters leave out of the ship and into space with their small spaceship, then is where Hal 9,000 does a move that ends up cutting the oxygen going through the person actually outside the spaceship causing a death. The last man in the small spaceship order Hal 9,000 to open the door, it is then when Hal 9,000 tells him he knows that they were trying to get rid of him, so he shunned him and doesn't open the door to the bigger spaceship(everyone else sleeping in the bigger ship died). So i start thinking about how we are to dependent on robots/machines. We might need to have a limit to where we stop building new/lazy working machines that do jobs for us. So what the main character does is, bust in and completely bring him down, as you can see on the left picture, thats where he disconnected everything that has to do with Hal 9,000.

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