this movie is all about evolution ... well not the movie but the series of books written by Sir Arthur C. Clark. The only way I could undestand this book adaption was by reading the book itself.
basically the monolith is like a "god" it holds infinite knowledge (if you see the beginning of the movie you will see the apes using tools with the monolith helping in the next stage of the evolution), what happened at the end is that the monolith gave dave the next step in the evolution and turned him into a perfect been, pure with no need of tools and free of even the laws of physics and time
@darkiller65 It is God ! It holds infinite unimaginable indefinite endless knowledge and power and He will change us into a far beyond imagination BEING independent of time and clocks and sorrow FOREVER AND EVER into the Truth !
It's just... Perfection...? The monolith, so quiet, standing still, in someway, while mankind evolved from monkey and their primitive concepts of society and tools to humans and their civilized world and advanced tools. Society and tools, be them phisical or not, were always together, one evolved the other and they both evolved and were evolved by humanity. Destroying HAL represented breaking this connection. Humanity no longer needs their tools and the next step on evolution is... Facing Death?
i am just a little brain, science fiction is usually fun, but now that there are lots of planets, The aliens made the monolith to start ancient man killing each other and then computers to kill man in the name of a higher evolution of purity harmony and love?
@JSlashPSlash2009 obviously you need complex plots fucking drawn out for you even if you dont enjoy the fucking story the cinematography was revolutionary for it's fucking time you cock sucking bitch boy grow a pair and some taste you penile fuck face
The utter brilliance of this movie makes me cry. NEVER before have I seen such a perfect harmony of visuals and sound. Todays audiences wont understand this, but thats ok. They can enjoy their Transformers while the big kids play ^_^
This movie presents an excellent, yet slightly complicated, storyline mixed very well with special effects ahead of its time. Makes me wonder why most modern movies can't mix a good story with good special effects.
The monolith and potential extra terrestrial creators behind it are the good guys. They watched over man's most important evolutionary steps, and ultimately enhanced them significantly. At the start, after becoming masters of Earth, humans ate baby food, had to learn to walk and even use the toilet in space. They were essentially babies. But thanks to the monolith, humans eventually advanced from 'babies' of space, to Masters of space, when the Starchild was born.
Pretty good try, but probably still about 2 steps too literal, and certainly mixing up far too many of the book's ideas with the movie.
Kubrick's film is not the book, and Arthur C Clarke was well aware of it -- enough to be puzzled by what Kubrick had done.
In the film, the monolith images are unexplained. Period. They are given no "alien creators", and no detail. They may as well be plain symbolic objects -- an image of Man's inspiration itself.
@TURBODORK2 No worries Stanley, I saw this in the theatre, saw it on cable, saw it on network TV, and have it on DVD, and I still don't understand it.
I have the meaning of life in this song, the ultimate enlightenment, the secret never to be told, the peak experience, the meaning of llife is to be happy, and you have the choice to be happy, even at this very moment right now, under any situation, choose, realise that free will, and you will realise the truth of this song
Read the two first books it explains everything David is now a test subject for superior life and now has the whole universe at his disposal and he can travel anywhere
From the begining to the end we saw synchronized planets in this movie, thats means everything in life have time and hour, our decisions causes us to grow, and when we grow enough we turn into a new kind of a life, probably near God, Dave was marked to see what IS life, when he learned everything (he had nothing else to talk, that's why he was silent), he ended his human life fast, and the monolith represents superior life, that help us a little bit in defined moments '-'
moon and the earth appear in the end moon is death and the Earth is life he eis saying life take care of hear like one baby life come and goes but those two represent eternity
man is no more afraid of death he see death has freedom and the next step in to human evolucion he is saying man in his youth is one monkey and in the end he almost touchs God the only genius in arts in 20 century were Picasso and kubrick
The genius arrived and gone analise this scene along with the all movie because the monilith apears two times in the beginning and in the end the person how make the video is wrong the monolith represents death and reincarnacion
in the beggining the monkeys were afraid of the death is fear that makes man to push foward in the evolucion to arm himself and atack the next one is fear how makes man wants to discover something new fear is the motor in evolucion along with war but in the end
The child is a hybrid... half alien, half human. Notice the size of the eyes. Human embryos don't have eyes that large. The aliens took Dave's DNA and fused a new/better species.
@Pizarroconquer He demolished the control (machines monitors our lives), the monotony of modern living, he demolished the logical mind (robotic kinda like part of our brain), he freed himself of laws; rules and warnings, he used his creativity and own decisions. He destroyed civilization.
@4widescreen4 Dunno where you get that interpretation from, but to me it just was a race between man and machine for the next step in either one's evolution.
@Pizarroconquer An ancient and unseen alien race uses black monoliths as tools to investigate worlds and, if possible, encourage the development of intelligent life. The apes became smarter after coming into contact with it and eventually became human beings.
At the end, the monolith turns Dr. Bowman into an entity / alien called The Star Child that can live and travel in space. He returns to Earth, purpose unknown.
In short, I took it as a sign of another step in mankind's evolution.
@TheOneWWEGuy in the sequel 2010 the purpose for his return to Earth is made clear: he informs his former wife that something wonderful is going to happen for the people on Earth, and also to comfort his terminally ill mother Jessie in her last moments of life.
@Pizarroconquer It's actually pretty literal. The monolith speeds up evolution. He sort of went "inside" of it, which caused him to evolve into the space fetus thing. That's actually called a Star Child, which is a race of creatures who have evolved to the point of basically god hood, and had taken the role of universal guardians of life. The monoliths were of their design, and placed on planets with life to help them achieve intelligent life.Him being a start child is what lets him come back.
Oh and by the way, the monolith represents the Unknown. The movie is saying that consciousness begins with a question, namely "what the fuck is that?". But the unknown is infinite and impenetrable, thus it is still there at the end, still pushing consciousness to the final step, joining "God" or cosmic consciousness.
So if you are asking "What the fuck is the monolith?", you are on the right track, LOL!!
@computerfis It is clearly a communications device of some sort since it sends a signal to Jupiter from the moon. But the ending (as shown in this video, btw thanks 4widescreen4 for uploading!), is a different animal altogether. The ending is all symbolism. The monolith is more than just one thing. It is a communications device, maybe as you say some sort of watching device that alerts the aliens when humans reach some level of development, .......
@computerfis ..... a symbol for the Unknown which pushes mankind towards knowledge, and finally a magical device that can transport Dave into the Unknown and convert Jupiter into a Sun (as in the sequel 2010). There are all kinds of mysterious things about this movie for everyone to speculate about. Have you ever wonder why the movie starts with a blank screen for about a minute? Maybe it is saying that in the beginning the was nothing, then God said Let There Be Light.
Guys, to understand the movie you need to understand Nietzsche. The book on which the movie is based says the monolith is a communication device to an alien race that planted life on earth. The movie on the other hand is about the evolution of consciousness, leading to joining with a collective consciousness or God. Unlike the book it is based on, the movie is pure Nietzsche.
@ridlazz921 Without 2001, there is no Blade Runner. No star wars, no alien. No sci fi movies of any worth. Oh yeah and maybe there's no spielberg, no ridley scott, or martin scorcese. Because Stanley Kubrick is a man who is a major inspiration for all three of those guys, and those guys are the major inspiration for the next generation of filmmakers and so on and so forth. So yeah, you can say this isn't a good movie, but I guess your opinion doesn't matter then
(1:02) Adoro la imagen de ese pequeño niño, tan diferente, tan simple, y tan evolucionado,,,,, con sus ojos completamente abiertos !!! es simplemente hermoso !!
I love the image of that little child, so different, so simple, and so evolved... with his eyes wide opened !!! its truly beautiful !!!
@bleesev2 Do you understand the ending? Because I don't. If you read the book, you'll know that the ending is different and even more confusing. Arthur C. Clarke didn't make the movie, he wrote the script. Stanley Kubric "made" the movie.
Arthur C. Clarke once said, "If you understand '2001' completely, we failed. We wanted to raise far more questions than we answered." I don't think their is a right or wrong answer as to what to what the ending is suppose to mean. I think they want people to use their imaginations.
@jackslater230011 So pretty much he made a movie, which made no sense, but tried to make it look like it made sense, so people would spend all this time trying to make sense out of it. Clever.
@dabangginception Well cleverness can have something to do with it: a clever person would assume there is no life after death, because there is absolutely no reason to believe there is and the idea of having a consciousness seperate from our body is absolutely absurd.
@dabangginception Your talking about reincarnation in a sense...and there's no such thing except in a spiritual sense I guess, and hell are you Hindu or Buddhist
@mrcow94 um...doesnt matter my dear racist friend. God created us all. i think the devil created rasicst like you...oh im sorry for hurting thy feelings poor rascist. HEEEHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH...
@dabangginception Eh wasn't being racist, was just asking it you were Hindu or Buddhist..don't think that classifies as "racism". Honestly I don't care what creed you are affiliated with, I was just curious considering what you said and the subject of the video. And finally, I'm not getting in an existential debate, so yeah "HEEEHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH" ...back atcha.
@dabangginception well, I guess you would never know. Because of the fact that once you are reincarnated, you lose memory of your past life. Maybe we enter a new plane of existence, or dimension, like a spirit world. Or maybe nothing happens at all. I guess we wont find out until we get there, but its an interesting topic to think about.
@AhendeArt believe me pal i think about it all the time ;) oh and God makes us lose memory of our past lives only to forget those pains we had. we have enough in this life, don't we? just like a gold fish's memory is only of 3-5 seconds ;)
@dabangginception Well what about population growth, taking in account 7000 million live now in the world, how is it that they where reborn if 500 years ago there were only 500 million on earth?
@TeoTanek that is coz (im just telling you what i believe) i believe that every creature gets better in the next life. so the micro-organisms became fishes which became frogs to monkeys to humans(frogs to monkeys? lol) so like this they achieved the lives of humans. everything on earth keeps evolving. even humans will keep evolving more and more in next lives and finally become a part of God. just what i believe. you should read "the alchemist" and dr Brian weiss's "Many lives many masters"
@dabangginception the soul has no fixed place of residence. it is in its own dimension. no matter where you are in the universe, the soul travels with your body. if there was a possibility that we could travel from on planet to another, and we were to die on that planet, the soul would be released back into its own dimension.
@lonneykid13 yes you r right actually. ive read many times that the souls live in 5th dimension that is "the dream world". this world contains all 1d, 2d, 3d and 4d within it. there all times are one and all places too.
what a gay-ass ending. I hate it when ppl try to act all mysterios and cool. you don't understand shit xD. well, it's not even kubricks story, he just filmed the book. and fuck the conspiracy shit, ah what a shitty way to trying to get some attention xD. and it's funny that a clockwork orange and this space oddie-shit are novels that written by other people, but kubrick gets all the clappings xD
What you say is mostly true. The writers of the novels do deserve credit for their writing. But it still takes skill to transform those ideas into an entirely different form of storytelling altogether, let alone succesfully. In my opinion Kubrick is as much of an artist as those who did the books.
@Lridaw definitely, the camera shots etc, are what really sells it, I'm not a film artist, but to me, making long periods of silence interesting would be very difficult.
This is the kind movie I wanted to see; a story where an incredibly advanced race helps humans evolve to a much greater state of existence. This movie is great even if its 2011, I don't think there's another sci-fi movie who can beat it.
fuck this movie. its just bullshit. stanley kubrick made a fucking bad movie.
it makes no sense, and yes i understand the so called plot of the movie so i want no smart ass to reply "oooh you dont understand this masterpice" no fuck that.
i completley understand this movie, and it still makes no sense.
the cinematography is fucking boring and its to fucking slow. there is no tension on the movie and the score sucks. Kubrick was fucking lazy, he could at least add some more camera angles !!
@ridlazz921 I make no pretense of understanding any of this movie. I don't really think there is an explanation for it. But I have to disagree, I thought it was fantastic. Either way, the reason it's so highly acclaimed is because it was completely revolutionary for the 60's...
Blade Runner: The android villains are neither menacing nor sympathetic, when ideally they should have been both. This leaves Scott's picturesque violence looking dull and exploitative.
Gladiator: If a gladiator film doesn't work as spectacle or as bloodthirsty action, what's left? Drama? It's dead on that level, too...
The Thin Red Line: Dispenses with plot, characterization, dramatic structure and emotional payoffs in favor of the sort of painstakingly composed pictorial diddling
Taxi Driver: seems to need scripts with well-designed humor and performers with the spirit of Ellen Burstyn to compensate for what seems to be a fundamentally depressed view of life and the belief that sobriety is the equivalent of seriousness.
@StormingSheep Wow. Just wow. You think because its on a list that it automatically means its good? You know what. This conversation is over because I look at things outside of the box and don't like many "popular" films. By the way 2001: A Space Odyssey was in the top 100 IMDb as one of the best movies ever made since you like following stats so much. What next, will you judge me for not liking Star Wars or The Godfather or Alien? Say what you want. I'm done with this conversation.
In the book, the monoliths were a certain kind of waypoints that a race of incredibly advanced aliens set out to monitor the advancement of other intelligent species, e.g. walking to find the first one, traveling to the closest land in outer space for the second one, and traveling to a far point of the solar system for the last one. Dave finds the last one, and it puts him in a temporary "cell" based on snippets they saw of human culture beforehand. Then, they evolve him to a higher state.
This is like a cinematic orgasm, it's so uplifting to see him reborn and floating back home to Earth with that awe-inspiring music. Best ending to a movie ever!
this movie is all about evolution ... well not the movie but the series of books written by Sir Arthur C. Clark. The only way I could undestand this book adaption was by reading the book itself.
sebaXXXteacher 22 hours ago
Now, wait a minute... I'm confused... "He who must not be named" is actually named Dave?!?! I think I liked J.K. Rowling's version better.
jollincones 2 days ago
Monolith = Giant "SPECIAL" Dark Chocolate Brownie!
I need to find me one of those for a maximum high!! hahaha kidding, I love this movie!
Omar13Z 5 days ago
basically the monolith is like a "god" it holds infinite knowledge (if you see the beginning of the movie you will see the apes using tools with the monolith helping in the next stage of the evolution), what happened at the end is that the monolith gave dave the next step in the evolution and turned him into a perfect been, pure with no need of tools and free of even the laws of physics and time
darkiller65 1 week ago 2
@darkiller65 nicely said
4widescreen4 1 week ago
@darkiller65 It is God ! It holds infinite unimaginable indefinite endless knowledge and power and He will change us into a far beyond imagination BEING independent of time and clocks and sorrow FOREVER AND EVER into the Truth !
bondita 4 days ago
This movie is WAY too much for the average person to comprehend. I'm convinced it was made by aliens.
Resurrected2011 1 week ago 3
@Resurrected2011 or someone on lsd
junglistguy9669 6 days ago
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Resurrected2011 1 week ago
This scene ruined the whole movie for me.
The fact Dave comes back as a "star child" is fucking stupid. Period.
drumking1006 2 weeks ago
It's just... Perfection...? The monolith, so quiet, standing still, in someway, while mankind evolved from monkey and their primitive concepts of society and tools to humans and their civilized world and advanced tools. Society and tools, be them phisical or not, were always together, one evolved the other and they both evolved and were evolved by humanity. Destroying HAL represented breaking this connection. Humanity no longer needs their tools and the next step on evolution is... Facing Death?
Alexeiyeah 3 weeks ago 3
i am just a little brain, science fiction is usually fun, but now that there are lots of planets, The aliens made the monolith to start ancient man killing each other and then computers to kill man in the name of a higher evolution of purity harmony and love?
JazzKeyboardist1 4 weeks ago
Great, now abort it.
twooffour 1 month ago
@twooffour You are not making abortion jokess, are you? I mean, the space fetus thing.
LightHero117 1 month ago
@LightHero117
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twooffour 1 month ago
The Future looking at the Past (us).
SardaukarPrime 1 month ago 2
So in the end, Dave became a glowing fetus?
LightHero117 1 month ago 4
@LightHero117 Well, yea, or it could be a symbolic shape; enlightened pure new being.
4widescreen4 1 month ago 5
@4widescreen4 It is known as a star child
nowisdasick 1 month ago 4
@nowisdasick yep
4widescreen4 1 month ago
@4widescreen4 Oh sheesh y'all sahel hon
nowisdasick 1 month ago
Damn, all these people feeling Butt-Hurt over a crappy ass film, Grow The Fuck Up !!!
JSlashPSlash2009 1 month ago
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Tenraiden 1 month ago
Crying.
lastechoes 1 month ago
W....T....F....?!
1Nekit1 1 month ago
The end of 2001 space oddysey is a baby who is watching us and the first scene of clockwork orange is alex delarge watching us ^-^
piou77piou 1 month ago
@JSlashPSlash2009 it's boring if you have a low I.Q
hockeytofu101 1 month ago
@hockeytofu101 That makes no sense Dipshit, You just have no taste in films !!!
JSlashPSlash2009 1 month ago
@JSlashPSlash2009 obviously you need complex plots fucking drawn out for you even if you dont enjoy the fucking story the cinematography was revolutionary for it's fucking time you cock sucking bitch boy grow a pair and some taste you penile fuck face
hockeytofu101 1 month ago
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hockeytofu101 1 month ago
*monolith appears*
DAVE: *facepalm*
0180917 2 months ago
The utter brilliance of this movie makes me cry. NEVER before have I seen such a perfect harmony of visuals and sound. Todays audiences wont understand this, but thats ok. They can enjoy their Transformers while the big kids play ^_^
OMGRyanBurgos 2 months ago 3
This movie presents an excellent, yet slightly complicated, storyline mixed very well with special effects ahead of its time. Makes me wonder why most modern movies can't mix a good story with good special effects.
USAthroughout 2 months ago 4
Im here only to listen the music.
lcGlHeaD 2 months ago
DAAAAAAIIIIIIIIISSYYYYYYYYYYYYY
poniesFTW7 2 months ago
They use this music so many times in comedy clips, it's hard to take it seriously. :(
MASSEFFECTfan101 2 months ago
@MASSEFFECTfan101 Got all reason. They think this music is really funny...
lcGlHeaD 2 months ago
wu-wut kind of kucked up video is this?!?!!
mantisolivares 2 months ago
The monolith and potential extra terrestrial creators behind it are the good guys. They watched over man's most important evolutionary steps, and ultimately enhanced them significantly. At the start, after becoming masters of Earth, humans ate baby food, had to learn to walk and even use the toilet in space. They were essentially babies. But thanks to the monolith, humans eventually advanced from 'babies' of space, to Masters of space, when the Starchild was born.
That's how I see it anyway.
tjwwe 2 months ago
@tjwwe
Pretty good try, but probably still about 2 steps too literal, and certainly mixing up far too many of the book's ideas with the movie.
Kubrick's film is not the book, and Arthur C Clarke was well aware of it -- enough to be puzzled by what Kubrick had done.
In the film, the monolith images are unexplained. Period. They are given no "alien creators", and no detail. They may as well be plain symbolic objects -- an image of Man's inspiration itself.
It's poetry.
ikshields 2 months ago
if u understand 2001 completely we failed - stanley kubrick
TURBODORK2 2 months ago
@TURBODORK2 No worries Stanley, I saw this in the theatre, saw it on cable, saw it on network TV, and have it on DVD, and I still don't understand it.
jrssjdca 2 months ago
so confusing...
atheist382 2 months ago
I have the meaning of life in this song, the ultimate enlightenment, the secret never to be told, the peak experience, the meaning of llife is to be happy, and you have the choice to be happy, even at this very moment right now, under any situation, choose, realise that free will, and you will realise the truth of this song
lynassd 3 months ago
How many interpretations this film ever had, he still stands in it's own, mysterious
way...Kubrick made an epic masterpiece ( in 1968 ! ) that can compete with most of today fantasy-movies.
Willywaw 3 months ago
2001: A Space Fetus
panther2598 3 months ago
)'( 2012 theme is NOT going to be "END OF THE WORLD". It's going to be "Fertility 2.0". Maybe THIS is what they mean by it....
LordWombaticus 3 months ago
Read the two first books it explains everything David is now a test subject for superior life and now has the whole universe at his disposal and he can travel anywhere
poopstain742 3 months ago
From the begining to the end we saw synchronized planets in this movie, thats means everything in life have time and hour, our decisions causes us to grow, and when we grow enough we turn into a new kind of a life, probably near God, Dave was marked to see what IS life, when he learned everything (he had nothing else to talk, that's why he was silent), he ended his human life fast, and the monolith represents superior life, that help us a little bit in defined moments '-'
Xis03 3 months ago
moon and the earth appear in the end moon is death and the Earth is life he eis saying life take care of hear like one baby life come and goes but those two represent eternity
portugal81 3 months ago
man is no more afraid of death he see death has freedom and the next step in to human evolucion he is saying man in his youth is one monkey and in the end he almost touchs God the only genius in arts in 20 century were Picasso and kubrick
portugal81 3 months ago
The genius arrived and gone analise this scene along with the all movie because the monilith apears two times in the beginning and in the end the person how make the video is wrong the monolith represents death and reincarnacion
in the beggining the monkeys were afraid of the death is fear that makes man to push foward in the evolucion to arm himself and atack the next one is fear how makes man wants to discover something new fear is the motor in evolucion along with war but in the end
portugal81 3 months ago
The child is a hybrid... half alien, half human. Notice the size of the eyes. Human embryos don't have eyes that large. The aliens took Dave's DNA and fused a new/better species.
1StarProductions 3 months ago
Thank God I wasn't the only one that was confused about the ending. I feel so much better lol
charms71 3 months ago 4
The CIA used this movie to train "Telepaths" in order to harm American Citizens of Armenian Heritage.
ataturkwashomo 3 months ago
This movie is a very simple story about "Telepathic" communication and Alien [Devine] Intervention. I am the old man now and the baby.
ataturkwashomo 3 months ago
READ THE BOOKS
!!
wtfbenny 3 months ago
So i dont get it.... are there aliens or not in this film?
But overall one of my favorite movies
dogdays6708 4 months ago
死是生的起端 年老是開啟星門的鑰匙 星童馳月 嬉戲蒼穹
寂靜的夜 人歌唱 火燒著 月沉墜 星眨眼 我們即將老去
回記遙追憶 失去了歲月 還擁有無限星斗 我們並不寂寞
anamnesis1021 4 months ago
This movie is so damn good.On the top3 of my all time favorites.
Ph4nt4sm4ge 4 months ago 22
Understand? It's not a matter of understand. This is a masterpiece. That's all I know.
askjiir 4 months ago
I don't understand the ending, what happend actually when he demolished the P.C.
I have to admit this movie was awesome, not like all those other retarded Hollywood Movies that gave no story.
Pizarroconquer 4 months ago 5
@Pizarroconquer He demolished the control (machines monitors our lives), the monotony of modern living, he demolished the logical mind (robotic kinda like part of our brain), he freed himself of laws; rules and warnings, he used his creativity and own decisions. He destroyed civilization.
4widescreen4 4 months ago 13
@4widescreen4 Dunno where you get that interpretation from, but to me it just was a race between man and machine for the next step in either one's evolution.
ValAktaion 2 months ago
I think HAL was bigger then a computer and it got into Dave's mind and created this world that Dave had in his mind. At least that's what I think.
T81PA 1 month ago
@Pizarroconquer An ancient and unseen alien race uses black monoliths as tools to investigate worlds and, if possible, encourage the development of intelligent life. The apes became smarter after coming into contact with it and eventually became human beings.
At the end, the monolith turns Dr. Bowman into an entity / alien called The Star Child that can live and travel in space. He returns to Earth, purpose unknown.
In short, I took it as a sign of another step in mankind's evolution.
TheOneWWEGuy 4 months ago
@TheOneWWEGuy Space Baby = Ric Flair
SawThatComingAgain 4 months ago
@TheOneWWEGuy in the sequel 2010 the purpose for his return to Earth is made clear: he informs his former wife that something wonderful is going to happen for the people on Earth, and also to comfort his terminally ill mother Jessie in her last moments of life.
fatpizzaman 4 months ago
@Pizarroconquer Read the book. It goes into a lot of details and explanations that the movie doesn't. The book and movie go together hand in hand.
LorenzoNW 4 months ago
@LorenzoNW OMG, I didn't know there was a book! I am so excited to hear this.
allisonforfornsed 3 months ago
@Pizarroconquer It's actually pretty literal. The monolith speeds up evolution. He sort of went "inside" of it, which caused him to evolve into the space fetus thing. That's actually called a Star Child, which is a race of creatures who have evolved to the point of basically god hood, and had taken the role of universal guardians of life. The monoliths were of their design, and placed on planets with life to help them achieve intelligent life.Him being a start child is what lets him come back.
CPU9incarnate 2 months ago
@CPU9incarnate Smartypants
bruvvamoff 2 months ago
The presence of the monolith is the creepiest, yet beautiful feeling in the history of cinema.
aigg 4 months ago 40
is that Zordon from the original Power Rangers?
GeGeMus12 4 months ago
Oh and by the way, the monolith represents the Unknown. The movie is saying that consciousness begins with a question, namely "what the fuck is that?". But the unknown is infinite and impenetrable, thus it is still there at the end, still pushing consciousness to the final step, joining "God" or cosmic consciousness.
So if you are asking "What the fuck is the monolith?", you are on the right track, LOL!!
MrOrbach 4 months ago
@MrOrbach Or maybe it's a trigger (A clock), so aliens can watch us, and how much we have evolved
You can see it in this one: /watch?v=GPKg2c_bRCs
Where you suddenly can hear a clock xD
computerfis 4 months ago
@computerfis It is clearly a communications device of some sort since it sends a signal to Jupiter from the moon. But the ending (as shown in this video, btw thanks 4widescreen4 for uploading!), is a different animal altogether. The ending is all symbolism. The monolith is more than just one thing. It is a communications device, maybe as you say some sort of watching device that alerts the aliens when humans reach some level of development, .......
MrOrbach 4 months ago
@computerfis ..... a symbol for the Unknown which pushes mankind towards knowledge, and finally a magical device that can transport Dave into the Unknown and convert Jupiter into a Sun (as in the sequel 2010). There are all kinds of mysterious things about this movie for everyone to speculate about. Have you ever wonder why the movie starts with a blank screen for about a minute? Maybe it is saying that in the beginning the was nothing, then God said Let There Be Light.
MrOrbach 4 months ago
@MrOrbach mm maybe you're right
ar2014 4 months ago
Guys, to understand the movie you need to understand Nietzsche. The book on which the movie is based says the monolith is a communication device to an alien race that planted life on earth. The movie on the other hand is about the evolution of consciousness, leading to joining with a collective consciousness or God. Unlike the book it is based on, the movie is pure Nietzsche.
MrOrbach 4 months ago
This is what happened to Steve Jobs.
Arguman 4 months ago
@ridlazz921 Without 2001, there is no Blade Runner. No star wars, no alien. No sci fi movies of any worth. Oh yeah and maybe there's no spielberg, no ridley scott, or martin scorcese. Because Stanley Kubrick is a man who is a major inspiration for all three of those guys, and those guys are the major inspiration for the next generation of filmmakers and so on and so forth. So yeah, you can say this isn't a good movie, but I guess your opinion doesn't matter then
MrCmurphy2994 4 months ago
@MrCmurphy2994
stanley kubrick is a genius, a vissionary
telkines 4 months ago
If 2012 is true, then I hope it's the next step in human evolution.
andreww1212 4 months ago
what...the...FUCK!
PrayongLotus999 4 months ago
2012 is coming.
Trickroad 4 months ago
I didn't quite understood, what was the monolith? Was it God, Alien, or just an advanced being?
SwiftyBestFan 5 months ago
@SwiftyBestFan according to the books, its a giant computer made of stars
LPCrusader1025 5 months ago
@LPCrusader1025 THEY ARE giant computers made of stars
LPCrusader1025 5 months ago
@SwiftyBestFan In my opinion, they were objects left by aliens to mark the locations they had visited.
AQuestionOrSomethin4 4 months ago
I'd love to know what are the paintings that appear in the room or the author....
slamblambacid 5 months ago
7 people have no soul
marango4576 5 months ago
300000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 stars
BernyjackStone 5 months ago
Wait what, needs more dicks.
tHecOmMeNtErSrEtUrN 5 months ago
Read what you want to read! Believe what you want to believe! But to be the man, you gotta beat the man! WOOOOOOOO!
aulaw2001 5 months ago
(1:02) Adoro la imagen de ese pequeño niño, tan diferente, tan simple, y tan evolucionado,,,,, con sus ojos completamente abiertos !!! es simplemente hermoso !!
I love the image of that little child, so different, so simple, and so evolved... with his eyes wide opened !!! its truly beautiful !!!
lobetevictorhugo 5 months ago
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
streetcarjay 5 months ago
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first time i saw this movie, my brains freaked
nicolaj990 5 months ago
and thus began the teletubies!
double0nine009 5 months ago
and this is how the God Emperor of Mankind came into being
agge141 5 months ago
The ending kinda freaked me out a bit...I was also watching it at 2 a.m. and...yeah.
mrcow94 5 months ago
@bleesev2 Do you understand the ending? Because I don't. If you read the book, you'll know that the ending is different and even more confusing. Arthur C. Clarke didn't make the movie, he wrote the script. Stanley Kubric "made" the movie.
jackslater230011 5 months ago
What the fuck did I just watch?
tificationification 5 months ago
i like this film
thumbs up for being vague
Ensphering 5 months ago
Arthur C. Clarke once said, "If you understand '2001' completely, we failed. We wanted to raise far more questions than we answered." I don't think their is a right or wrong answer as to what to what the ending is suppose to mean. I think they want people to use their imaginations.
jackslater230011 5 months ago
@jackslater230011 So pretty much he made a movie, which made no sense, but tried to make it look like it made sense, so people would spend all this time trying to make sense out of it. Clever.
bleesev2 5 months ago
...and the bad guy was the black stone, well well well, he finally found out
lotorobly 5 months ago
2012 is coming.
Churruminonian 6 months ago
@Churruminonian so is 2013..2014, stop repeating a hype
Joelhimself 6 months ago
@Churruminonian It sure is.
bleesev2 5 months ago
Great movie..
marellamofo 6 months ago
what the hell is this ipod doing in there
ThePatrycjas 6 months ago
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dabangginception 6 months ago
@dabangginception Cleverness has nothing to it, we dont have the knowledge about that yet nor remembered experience, so no worth discussing.
4widescreen4 6 months ago 17
@4widescreen4 uhhh.....true.
dabangginception 6 months ago
@4widescreen4 why not discuss it?
dabangginception 5 months ago
@dabangginception Well cleverness can have something to do with it: a clever person would assume there is no life after death, because there is absolutely no reason to believe there is and the idea of having a consciousness seperate from our body is absolutely absurd.
effbyrne 6 months ago
@effbyrne To each his own
dabangginception 6 months ago
@dabangginception Your talking about reincarnation in a sense...and there's no such thing except in a spiritual sense I guess, and hell are you Hindu or Buddhist
mrcow94 5 months ago
@mrcow94 um...doesnt matter my dear racist friend. God created us all. i think the devil created rasicst like you...oh im sorry for hurting thy feelings poor rascist. HEEEHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH...
dabangginception 5 months ago
@dabangginception Eh wasn't being racist, was just asking it you were Hindu or Buddhist..don't think that classifies as "racism". Honestly I don't care what creed you are affiliated with, I was just curious considering what you said and the subject of the video. And finally, I'm not getting in an existential debate, so yeah "HEEEHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH" ...back atcha.
mrcow94 5 months ago
@mrcow94 ok "HEEHAHAHAHHAHhahahhahha" back back at thou. i i dont care about my or anyone's race or religion.
dabangginception 5 months ago
@dabangginception the only one who created you it you're retarded parents
RaizenToguro 5 months ago
@RaizenToguro so my parents r my god coz they created me. f**k off if you dont respect yours.
dabangginception 5 months ago
@dabangginception well, I guess you would never know. Because of the fact that once you are reincarnated, you lose memory of your past life. Maybe we enter a new plane of existence, or dimension, like a spirit world. Or maybe nothing happens at all. I guess we wont find out until we get there, but its an interesting topic to think about.
AhendeArt 5 months ago
@AhendeArt believe me pal i think about it all the time ;) oh and God makes us lose memory of our past lives only to forget those pains we had. we have enough in this life, don't we? just like a gold fish's memory is only of 3-5 seconds ;)
dabangginception 5 months ago
@dabangginception Well what about population growth, taking in account 7000 million live now in the world, how is it that they where reborn if 500 years ago there were only 500 million on earth?
TeoTanek 5 months ago
@TeoTanek that is coz (im just telling you what i believe) i believe that every creature gets better in the next life. so the micro-organisms became fishes which became frogs to monkeys to humans(frogs to monkeys? lol) so like this they achieved the lives of humans. everything on earth keeps evolving. even humans will keep evolving more and more in next lives and finally become a part of God. just what i believe. you should read "the alchemist" and dr Brian weiss's "Many lives many masters"
dabangginception 5 months ago
@dabangginception i believe this also
smellyhippi 5 months ago
@dabangginception the soul has no fixed place of residence. it is in its own dimension. no matter where you are in the universe, the soul travels with your body. if there was a possibility that we could travel from on planet to another, and we were to die on that planet, the soul would be released back into its own dimension.
lonneykid13 5 months ago
@lonneykid13 yes you r right actually. ive read many times that the souls live in 5th dimension that is "the dream world". this world contains all 1d, 2d, 3d and 4d within it. there all times are one and all places too.
dabangginception 5 months ago
this is one of the fucking creepiest parts of a movie in human history in my opinion and its rated G
MrNightreap 6 months ago 15
@MrNightreap that's what i thought too, i agree.
facecheek 6 months ago
BS. Everybody knows the monolith is an alien alarm clock. The moon scene clearly shows that.
rev087 6 months ago 2
@rev087 Haha well said
AQuestionOrSomethin4 6 months ago
CGI in 1967?? holy shit
HangZhien 6 months ago
The monolith is space and space is the monolith.
Man's knowledge comes from the substance around and beyond the stars.
Urdalibertine 6 months ago
I saw the monolith i'm like OH NO!!!! GRAB YOUR ANIMAL BONES AND PRETEND THEIR DRUMS!!!!
MackFalzone 6 months ago
0:38 is this room even real, because it looks a lot like CGI
TheKjex 6 months ago
@TheKjex its real, they didnt have cgi till the 80s
SuperHamsterKing 6 months ago
@TheKjex Yes its real. The director was very particular about his camera shots. He tended to be so OCD about them they look too perfect to be real.
txdust80 6 months ago
LOL
what a gay-ass ending. I hate it when ppl try to act all mysterios and cool. you don't understand shit xD. well, it's not even kubricks story, he just filmed the book. and fuck the conspiracy shit, ah what a shitty way to trying to get some attention xD. and it's funny that a clockwork orange and this space oddie-shit are novels that written by other people, but kubrick gets all the clappings xD
HOXHOXHOX 6 months ago
@HOXHOXHOX
What you say is mostly true. The writers of the novels do deserve credit for their writing. But it still takes skill to transform those ideas into an entirely different form of storytelling altogether, let alone succesfully. In my opinion Kubrick is as much of an artist as those who did the books.
Lridaw 6 months ago
@Lridaw definitely, the camera shots etc, are what really sells it, I'm not a film artist, but to me, making long periods of silence interesting would be very difficult.
IMBUED 6 months ago
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panprensayvideos 6 months ago
This is the kind movie I wanted to see; a story where an incredibly advanced race helps humans evolve to a much greater state of existence. This movie is great even if its 2011, I don't think there's another sci-fi movie who can beat it.
GoldenGohan 6 months ago
fuck this movie. its just bullshit. stanley kubrick made a fucking bad movie.
it makes no sense, and yes i understand the so called plot of the movie so i want no smart ass to reply "oooh you dont understand this masterpice" no fuck that.
i completley understand this movie, and it still makes no sense.
the cinematography is fucking boring and its to fucking slow. there is no tension on the movie and the score sucks. Kubrick was fucking lazy, he could at least add some more camera angles !!
ridlazz921 6 months ago
@ridlazz921 I pretty much agree with you there, rid. It could've been so much more, but Kubrick really dropped the ball.
evilartist1983 6 months ago
@ridlazz921 I make no pretense of understanding any of this movie. I don't really think there is an explanation for it. But I have to disagree, I thought it was fantastic. Either way, the reason it's so highly acclaimed is because it was completely revolutionary for the 60's...
bobb328 6 months ago
@ridlazz921 Would you please share with all of us what you think a GOOD movie is then?
Luminous72 5 months ago
@Luminous72 fucking blade runner. blade runner is a great movie!
Blade Runner
Gladiator
The thin red line
Taxi driver
Casino
The dark knight
ridlazz921 5 months ago
@ridlazz921 To take a page from your book.
Blade Runner: The android villains are neither menacing nor sympathetic, when ideally they should have been both. This leaves Scott's picturesque violence looking dull and exploitative.
Gladiator: If a gladiator film doesn't work as spectacle or as bloodthirsty action, what's left? Drama? It's dead on that level, too...
Luminous72 5 months ago
Casino: It's an ambitious film, but also a scattered, unfocused one.
The Dark Knight: ok
Luminous72 5 months ago
@Luminous72 and all of those movies are more entertaining than Space Oyssey. which is too fucking long and boring. coman!
its pure bullshit.
ridlazz921 5 months ago
@ridlazz921 They are?
Luminous72 5 months ago
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Luminous72 5 months ago
The Thin Red Line: Dispenses with plot, characterization, dramatic structure and emotional payoffs in favor of the sort of painstakingly composed pictorial diddling
Taxi Driver: seems to need scripts with well-designed humor and performers with the spirit of Ellen Burstyn to compensate for what seems to be a fundamentally depressed view of life and the belief that sobriety is the equivalent of seriousness.
Luminous72 5 months ago
@Luminous72 no taxi driver is amazing
StormingSheep 5 months ago
@StormingSheep No. It's not.
Luminous72 5 months ago
@Luminous72 umm then why is it on the top 50 in imdb and everyone but you says its good?
StormingSheep 5 months ago
@StormingSheep Wow. Just wow. You think because its on a list that it automatically means its good? You know what. This conversation is over because I look at things outside of the box and don't like many "popular" films. By the way 2001: A Space Odyssey was in the top 100 IMDb as one of the best movies ever made since you like following stats so much. What next, will you judge me for not liking Star Wars or The Godfather or Alien? Say what you want. I'm done with this conversation.
Luminous72 5 months ago
@Luminous72 no but you don't know anything about films if you think taxi driver is bad
StormingSheep 5 months ago
In the book, the monoliths were a certain kind of waypoints that a race of incredibly advanced aliens set out to monitor the advancement of other intelligent species, e.g. walking to find the first one, traveling to the closest land in outer space for the second one, and traveling to a far point of the solar system for the last one. Dave finds the last one, and it puts him in a temporary "cell" based on snippets they saw of human culture beforehand. Then, they evolve him to a higher state.
mrchuckmorris 6 months ago
Only one question how can the movie go to a series of movies even though last scene didn't made any sense and how can you make a sequal out of it ?
My reaction was ,, what the FUCK, man ? ''
nintenojesas 6 months ago
This is like a cinematic orgasm, it's so uplifting to see him reborn and floating back home to Earth with that awe-inspiring music. Best ending to a movie ever!
straker2 7 months ago
i remember the first time i saw this movie, which was about 4 or 5 months ago.
at the end, i was like O.O
really strange ending, but i LOVE this movie none the less ^_^
StarWarsFanatic99 7 months ago
this baby is wierd.
schieese 7 months ago
@4widescreen4
I didn't get the ending...
Thanks for helping me understand.
FamePudding52 7 months ago
Egomaniac Humanzees are going to destroy our only life bubble.
lazyfreedom98 7 months ago
the entire ending of this movie would be awful to watch high (star gate)
Axoser 7 months ago