2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
Sci-fi will never be my go-to lol.
Now I know that this isn't my go-to genre of films. Still, I was intrigued to watch this for a while because I kept seeing it on HBO Max and the cover of it looked attractive so I thought I would click on it and read the description and then click out of it but today I finally locked in and said you know what I'm gonna give this a try. First thing first I looked up on Google who directed it to see if I knew any other films they had directed before and I had no idea that it was Stanley Kubrick! He directed The Shining (which is, in my opinion, the top 10 greatest horror movies of all time) and he also directed A Clockwork Orange which is in my top 20 horror movies of all time they are two fantastic horror movies so I knew I was in good hands when I saw Stanley Kubrick is the Director of 2001: A Space Odyssey. At the beginning of 2001: A Space Odyssey a black screen and this whole time I thought my TV was not working properly so it took me two times to get through that part because I thought my TV was broken.
In the beginning, it's in an unknown location filled with monkeys who see the black structure and they are also confused and captivated by it as so am I. I loved how right in the beginning we start the film off with the black screen and the song by Richard Strauss. For me, it built up so much anticipation and excitement because I didn't know what I was getting myself into at all and you feel like you're on a ride that is on the way slowly to the top. Later in the film the crew of the spaceship meet their computer system person Named Hal (AI?) Hal starts getting stranger and stranger by the day. His tone of voice is so eerie the entire time and it feels like Big Brother. Hal wants to control everybody and everything and he wants to see and hear everything that is going on. When Bowman picks up his weirdness, he wants out. But Hal does not want to let that happen. The end is what confuses me the most because Bowman I believe goes through many portals of the past in the future and then he is I believe in the future and an older version of himself but then it goes back to a baby structure staring at the moon? So I think Bowman was reborn again and none of this ever happened or existed? Nevertheless, I thought it was a great movie it was very different especially since this movie came out in 1968. They had no idea what was to come in 2001 what it would look like, or the idea of it and I find that so fascinating.
