2001 : A Space Odyssey Notes
Overall, I have some mixed feelings about the movie. I really liked the beginning and the middle, but the end didn't really do much for me. I really liked the mystery of the monoliths, and what that could mean for the future of humanity, but what we ended up getting was an LSD trip with no concrete answers.
2001 : A Space Odyssey - 1969, post civil war
Musical Prologue - Operatic
The Dawn of Man
Apes and tapirs - Hanging out in the savannah
Ape gets attacked by a jaguar, other apes leave it which isn't normal behavior
Apes still chilling in the desert, dirty watering hole
Apes divide into 2 different tribes
One tribe eventually scares the other off from the watering hole, securing water has a resource
This has to be the beginning of human evolution
Huddled for warmth, no fire
A monolith has appeared outside the cave, holy voices singing as the apes go crazy
the beginning of religion??
Holy singing louder as they touch the monolith
Quarter moon and quarter sun does it mean anything- (after looking back after finishing the movie I don't think so)
Oh no the monkey has a club
Shows off technology and kills a different monkey- scares off other tribe from water
COLD WAR ANALOGY
There’s a satellite in space- is this the same world the monkeys are on and if so, why are there no humans? There’s multiple space stations it seems
This is the future- humans live both on earth and in space, very interesting
Super futuristic, some sort of space airport
Picture phones
Charged like a payphone
Earthlight room
Multiple nationalities, russians and united states
People still live on earth
Clavius - phone line repeated out of order for the past 10 days, bus denied emergency land (violation of IAS convention)
Serious epidemic at clavius, unknown origins
Mirrored COLD WAR not willing to share information with russians
Russians trying to gain information to get advantage - love the cold war analogy
Clavius:
No epidemic, just a cover story
its giving secretive government
There seems to be something deliberately buried that the Americans discovered on the surface of the moon
4 million years ago
OH MY GOD ANOTHER MONOLITH?!
Put on the moon about the same time that the earth (check timeline on that)
Google: first humans appeared 5~7 million years ago, so ape timeline still works
High pitched sound = Same quarter moon and sun over
Jupiter Mission - 18 months later
Red eye/lens
Comes from HAL 9000 computer
AI - reproduce or mimic
It talks this will end badly
He controls hibernation, nerves and heart of the ship
Hes “perfect”- def foreshadowing
Men put in hibernation for partition of the flight- done before take off 3 members still in hibernation
Does HAL have emotions?
He “acts” because he was programs, but does he actually have emotions?
No one can truly answer that
Is dave having second thoughts about the mission?? - HAL asks
HEL - metropolis
Hal thinks something odd about the mission and dave agrees
Strange stories floating around before they left - something on the moon
HAL says he has a mind
72 hours before satellite goes out
Theres nothing wrong with the satellite??? Hmmmmm???
NASA - says that the their own 9000 computer says something otherwise? HMMMMMMM
Hal says that its human error, not his own
Is he saying that the other computer is more human?
Intermission
HAL MURDERED LITERALLY EVERYONE
The eye in the computer pod
I cant believe hal is gonna try to gaslight and girlboss his way out of this- Dave still kills him anyway.
A note that only Hal has is revealed
- This is when I stopped taking notes while we watched the movie with the lights off. I did think t was interesting that a lot of the LSD imagery looked very natural. A lot of the shapes reminded me of barrier coral reefs
- I didn't really like the ending at all. I found it confusing, and it didn't give me any answers which I disliked.
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