Reviewed this last night on a friends DVD. This was after I had shared with him the Weidner essay kindly provided by Audiophilander.Seems Weidner is pretty much on to this one. The real story here is the story of the monolith. And transformation (alchemy). Humans are shown as pretty small and soulless.
Seems to me, though, that all of Kubrick's movies show people as being somehow victims of their fate or of outside forces. Maybe not Spartacus? Paths of Glory? Dunno. Never saw Paths and Spartacus was a long time ago.
It would be interesting to know how Kubrick really felt about the subject of this movie. Did he believe that we're lost without outside intervention, as in aliens, God, etc?
Anyone know why Kubrick left the US in the 60s and never returned?
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Topic - 2001 once again - edta 09:27:09 07/04/03 (34)
- Revolutionary. For once, - tinear 06:39:13 07/13/03 (1)
- Films we watch more than once or twice - edta 16:37:19 07/13/03 (0)
- Re: 2001 once again - TPBrown 11:33:02 07/11/03 (1)
- It is a great flick, thanks. - edta 19:36:23 07/11/03 (0)
- Re: 2001 once again - patrickU 04:45:59 07/07/03 (17)
- Barry Lyndon? Oh, c'mon. It's - tinear 05:52:24 07/13/03 (3)
- Re: Tom Jones is that the Lady´s singer... - patrickU 06:05:16 07/13/03 (2)
- Le remote? - tinear 06:22:10 07/13/03 (1)
- Re: Le remote? le pages scrolling... - patrickU 06:40:28 07/13/03 (0)
- At the edge of human experience - edta 16:40:27 07/07/03 (7)
- Re: At the edge of human experience - patrickU 00:24:03 07/08/03 (6)
- Let me know - edta 17:28:47 07/08/03 (5)
- Re: Let me know - patrickU 01:04:01 07/09/03 (4)
- Re: Let me know - edta 21:37:02 07/09/03 (3)
- Re: Let me know - patrickU 00:30:12 07/10/03 (2)
- Re: Let me know - edta 19:29:22 07/11/03 (1)
- Re: Let me know - patrickU 03:02:40 07/12/03 (0)
- Barry Lyndon is bottomless, as the human mind study - Victor Khomenko 06:45:46 07/07/03 (4)
- You two wanks just got twisted up over Marisa! That's all. n - albee33 17:40:51 07/08/03 (2)
- Isn't she something?! (nt) - Victor Khomenko 05:08:03 07/09/03 (1)
- Oh yeah. me twisted up, too . . . n - albee33 13:15:19 07/09/03 (0)
- RE : YOU SAID IT. nt - patrickU 07:06:49 07/07/03 (0)
- Re: 2001 once again - old geezer 23:55:15 07/04/03 (1)
- The God Concept and - edta 06:37:18 07/05/03 (0)
- Yep... for lack of better films - Victor Khomenko 10:09:13 07/04/03 (9)
- Ahem........ - danj 21:46:55 07/08/03 (0)
- There are still questions about it. - edta 12:14:37 07/04/03 (7)
- Re: There are still questions about it. - TA 10:54:48 07/05/03 (1)
- HAL, the most "human"? - edta 20:48:01 07/05/03 (0)
- Those are all *plot* related questions - Victor Khomenko 12:47:51 07/04/03 (4)
- Nope , the special effects are the biggies - edta 20:33:56 07/04/03 (2)
- Homo Faber the Book? - Victor Khomenko 06:16:14 07/05/03 (1)
- Ahem, the musical! - edta 06:43:08 07/05/03 (0)
- Re: Those are all *plot* related questions - JDK 13:45:44 07/04/03 (0)