Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey

2001 takes a long-term view of development, human and otherwise. The story traces the development of man from man-ape. Uniquely, 2001 considers not only the evolution that has led to the development of man, but also the evolution that man might undergo in the future. 2001: A Space Odyssey explores technological innovation, its possibilities and its perils.

INTORDUCTION
In 1968, Stanley Kubrick’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey spookily visualized a new millennium in a compulsive manner strongly motivated by technology and violence. Before the accomplishment of that millenary, Kubrick’s film defined an epic space trip that begins with the prehistoric encounter of primitive weapons that would change and drive human story through

many periods of time to travel for the purpose of discovery and conquest. Concerning the past and future with a well-known match-on-action edit, that modifies a prehistoric club into a well-groomed and neatly tailored twenty-first-century space ship, the film communicates the story of an intergalactic quest for a mysterious monolith, a mission that decide by reasoning when the ship and its astronauts become to wait in hiding to attack by an animated computer gone bad and determined on getting rid of the human crew.
The latter section of the film ends with the image of an embryo floating in space, broadcasting an equivocal new age near to be born out of series of cerebral discovery and human brutality. At the time the year 2001 actually came, an unusual apocalyptic violence dumbfounded the world as al-Qaeda terrorists’ collided two hijacked jet airliners into the Twin Towers in New York City. As a threateningly ironic reminder of Kubrick’s film, observers of those dreadful images, either on the streets of Lower Manhattan or as television viewers around the universe, expressed in words that the crash of the aircrafts and the disintegrating of the towers was like a movie. Reflecting this uneasy and uncanny merging of film history and historical catastrophe, the first decade of the 2000s became defined by revolutions of seen and unseen violence, of astonishing and threatening technologies, of cultural and political conquests and reversals, and of a wavering humanity within inhumane worlds.
The central image of 2001: A Space Odyssey, a rectangular black monolith, appears from the unknown and sparks a new stage in human evolution. This classic film based on the short story,