The great Stanley Kubrick worked in secret on
2001, his most poetic and impenetrable film. The film opens with a long sequence of music, the pounding and urgent score to: Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss. The acting is
2001 isn't very good, it's essentially filler, the characters use small talk when they do talk, and the real personality is in the computer HAL-9000. HAL is the main operating device of the spaceship that hurdles through space (we've just seen a precursor of the evolution of man prompted by a monolith) and man is now in great danger as HAL gains a consciousness and reasoning. HAL realizes that he doesn't really need man anymore, he's so perfect and man is so fallible, that man is practically holding HAL back from his next step (his evolution). So HAL goes haywire, and man has to fight for his life. This is not the main point of
2001, but merely the story. It is rather the realistic spectacle and thought process and confusion of
2001 which makes it such an interesting film. Many people take from it different things. I'm not positive about this, but during its first screening, there wasn't a single theory that overlapped into someone else's about the film. This is what makes a movie great: that it effects you even after it's over, and that it might change what you think.
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