in movie history , I didn't actually understand it, but I was shocked. Many times, the answer is unnecessary, because life is changing, the universe is infinite, and the definite answer does not exist. I am used to making clear judgments about things, making conclusions, and even in order to make sure that I am still thinking. I can't wait to find the result, and I forgot to feel it. "2001: Traveling in Space" is such a film that makes you unable to think, but also drives you to examine the meaning and purpose of life at the beginning of each day. In this film, I found a picture of the universe that often appears in my dreams. I also seem to have vaguely found a clue why I look up at the night sky in my dream. Last night, after watching "2001: Traveling in Space", I Dreamed of the mysterious sky again.
It is impossible to describe this movie in words. Its content is not replaceable with words, especially the last part of the film, which completely established the special status of the film language. The film, which was once considered difficult to record. The juggling of Daya Hall even surpasses the rich philosophical and rational words here, which is not surprising why it is called a landmark work.
It is meaningless to use a philosophical conclusion to define this movie, because it completely deviates from the original intention of the movie. This movie is not an apocalyptic prophecy, but a power to stimulate thinking. It is the beginning, not the end. The question, not the answer, is ignorance, not wisdom. It is indeed the most unimaginative film in the history of film, because it is the most noble film in the history of film, and its sublime has surpassed the height of human imagination.
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"Travel in Space" takes the film's time compression ability to its extreme, and can be regarded as a brief history of time. The time span it has experienced should be the longest of all existing works of art, covering the entire birth and demise of the entire human race. The director often uses a black screen technique to achieve a large span of time or space. However, in the time span of hundreds of millions of years when the ape man threw his bones into the sky and the bone-shaped spacecraft floated in space, the director used a hard cut. Therefore, the question is raised: Is
time constant relative to the purification process of human beings? What events have affected us? Do these events that affect us lead us toward a set goal, or do they lead us to a completely different goal? Is our progress formal or essential?
Today's reality is that the use of tools has accelerated the speed of our evolution and development, and this continuous acceleration has in turn increased our pursuit of speed. In the movie, the ape-man’s tools are inspired by obsidian, which makes this progress very fatalistic. With the repeated appearance of this stone in the movie, this kind of fatalistic meaning becomes stronger, as if in the dark. Manipulate human power. To theists, this stone can be God, and to the atheists, it can be a law that exists in the universe, but no matter what it is, its appearance means that the so-called progress of mankind does not belong to Human's own. Just as we control the speed, the speed in turn also controls us. We created the HAL-9000 computer, which in turn controlled us. In Kubrick’s case, Asimov’s three laws of robotics were like a human wishful thinking that was brutally shattered. Once, we thought of ourselves. Anything can be defeated, but now, anything can defeat us.
The tempo of the film is also surprisingly slow. However, in the thrilling passage of "time travel", the director suddenly accelerated the tempo. Not only did he accelerate the tempo, at the same time, the film’s "time machine" also suddenly started. I am I finished this paragraph in awe. I have also thought about time and space, and thought of the infinite firmament. I gradually realized that this kind of thinking brings only fear. In the infinite, everything will fall into silence, and everything humans will do will be nothing. It is meaningless. I have been unable to extricate myself from the contradictory thinking about the infinity and finiteness of the universe. I cannot accept the sense of emptiness brought by infinity, nor the sense of confinement brought by finiteness. And, what if someone really reaches the edge of the universe (if it has an edge)? Will he be excited about seeing the ultimate vision of the universe? "Traveling in Space" moved me, because Kubrick used his own technique to present his thinking, which made me truly feel that when my thinking wandered on the edge of the infinite universe, there was a calm master. His thinking is by my side, guiding me in one direction.
The last paragraph is very magical. The director showed different time paragraphs in the same space, and caused the time to partially overlap. This overlap is very tense. At the end of this universe, perhaps, it is the end for humans. For the universe, it is just a node. The human universe is about to end. When the protagonist comes to a place that only our mind can reach, time is already far ahead, but space is different. Our lives are no different now. Bowman is already the last person in the universe, and he is slowly aging. Finally, obsidian reappears. Some people say that it symbolizes the end of the old life and the birth of the new life, because With Bowman’s departure, a new life-"Star Child" was born, but I think that the appearance of this obsidian is more like a mockery of human wisdom, because it is it every time, making humans absurd. , Accidental life leads to a certain direction. Its shape resembles a door. The door is a hole in the wall, but for the empty universe, its door may be just a kind of dense entity. And when the camera looked up to shoot this obsidian, it looked like a road, and every time, it pointed to a bright planet, in prehistoric society, it pointed to the moon, hundreds of millions of years later, mankind landed on the moon ; On the moon, it points to Jupiter, and mankind flew to Jupiter... For the last time, when the only remaining mankind pointed his finger at it, mankind was reborn.
Kubrick’s "Future Trilogy",
"Dr. Strange Love," "A Clockwork Orange," and "2001: Travelling in Space" are called Kubrick’s "Future Trilogy". The time of these three films The settings are in the future relative to the time, but they are not sci-fi movies in the genre. The three films have different styles, but they all have one obvious thing in common. The human beings in the film are always controlled by an invisible force. The characters in Kubrick’s films are always strong outsiders, but they all have one thing in common. "Dr. Strange Love" The characters in are high-level national leaders. They control the state machinery and manipulate the atomic bomb. Their conversation seems aggressive, but in the end, the film ends with atomic bomb explosions, and mushroom clouds fill the entire earth; in "A Clockwork Orange" , Alex used violent means to behave nonchalantly and lived a completely self-reliant life, but he and his violence never escaped the control of the state apparatus, and even the violence he used also waited for an opportunity to put him to death; and in 2001 In "Space", the power of mankind has been extended to outer space, but at the end of the film, we discovered that everything was originally arranged in advance. The extent to which human power can develop is already in the universe. The answer is, but we don’t know yet.
It is time for human beings to think seriously, but does human thinking really make sense? … …
This is the pessimism implicit in Kubrick’s films. He seems to be tired of the meaningless struggles of human society, because no matter how we go our way, everything in humanity will move in the direction that has been determined. Because the road has been paved, the universe has cast a spell on mankind, but in this spell, it is written that humans must fight. Therefore, the first use of a tool was used for violence and destruction. The "human" who used the tool for the first time became huge and powerful in an upside-down shot, and he excitedly waved the bones in his hand. , Enjoying the fun of violence; the last time humans used tools was also destruction, Bowman angrily dismantled HAL-9000 to destroy the threat it held to humans.
This is the logic of the universe. Of course, it's just logic in a certain sense, the real logic, maybe we will never be able to penetrate...
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