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In Reply to: Re: Well YOU said one film (EWS) had done "major damage" to his posted by Victor Khomenko on February 3, 2004 at 18:04:12:
No other science fiction film approaches its reach: it touches on anthropology, i.e. the origin of homo sapiens' intellectual development and the first use of weapons in violent combat.
Metaphysics: what comes after "life?" Are we alone?
Also, individual alienation in the super-modern world of space travel.
Further, the issue of technology overcoming traditional human nature, creating a hybrid personality, i.e. the astronaut communicating distractedly with his parents on his birthday through a screen; the father talking to his far-away daughter.
Finally, the power and potential danger posed by machines which have greater powers than humans--and which necessarily have "emotions."
The film also is remarkable for its many stunning visual moments: the bone transforming into the spaceship, accompanied by a waltz; the rotation of the stewardess; the flashing screens during the landings with that damn pinging!; the eerie silence---pierced only by the very heavy breathing---during the retrieval of the body floating in space; and, of course, the light trip and subsequent aging of the astronaut----culminating in the much-satirized embryo-rebirth.
Sorry you didn't appreciate it.
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Follow Ups
- 2001 is one of the few science fiction movies that intentionally doesn't parody. - tinear 18:52:29 02/03/04 (9)
- More... - Victor Khomenko 19:19:03 02/03/04 (0)
- As I said, it had its moments, but not enough to make it into a work... - Victor Khomenko 19:17:42 02/03/04 (7)
- Well, the "tecno stuff" is what sci-fi is all about! - tinear 05:02:42 02/04/04 (6)
- You broke the code - I do not like sci-i films... - Victor Khomenko 06:07:53 02/04/04 (1)
- Who cares? Well, don't you think we are becoming more alienated? Consider how - tinear 07:57:01 02/04/04 (0)
- Re: Cappella Sistina. - patrickU 05:21:51 02/04/04 (3)
- Well, of course you don't want to be a member of - tinear 08:01:14 02/04/04 (2)
- Re: Well, of course you don't want to be a member of - patrickU 08:42:24 02/04/04 (1)
- Very different films: I disliked Virgin Suicides and loved LIT. nt - tinear 09:47:03 02/04/04 (0)
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