"2001: A Space Odyssey" started with several beautiful scenery films in succession. As a wasteland control, I was busy taking continuous screenshots. The subsequent film showed the beginning of human civilization. A group of apes, that is, you and my ancestors, jumped and screamed there. This section is indeed very aesthetic, but it shows human beings from the difficult survival to the use of tools, and then to contention. Resources thus establish the process of social relations. In this process, a smooth black stele played an important role. In view of the abundance of analytical articles on the Internet, I will not discuss in detail what this stele is. In short, in my opinion, it symbolizes the enlightenment of human beings from an external force or a higher-dimensional perspective. In "2001: A Space Odyssey", starting to use tools is seen as the first step towards civilization and space.
I have to mention the background music of this paragraph, Richard Strauss's "So Says Zarathustra". I think this symphonic poem adapted from Nietzsche's works would be far from the fame it is today without the vigorous promotion of "2001: A Space Odyssey". The three appearances of this magnificent music in "2001: A Space Odyssey" are the beginning of the film, when humans begin to use tools, and the cycle of civilization at the end, which is consistent with Nietzsche's original work of Samsara and Superman.
With the montage of a bone turning into an aircraft, history has evolved into the 2001 space age. The picture display in this section is essentially Jules Verne's fantasy of the near future. In reality, 2001 has passed, and we can see many detailed ideas from 1968, some have been realized, such as video phones, ultra-thin screens, etc.; some are even ahead, such as touch screens, which are still flooded in movies Plastic buttons. Some have not been realized, such as such casual and convenient space travel, humans' involvement in Jupiter, and the strange gravity system inside the spacecraft, and so on. However, the fashion design is still not outdated today, and the pink sofa is still a fashionable style in 2011. In any case, a movie called "2001: A Space Odyssey" still has such exquisite and magnificent pictures in 2011 and today, it is not difficult to imagine the shock that it brought to the audience at that time. It is undeniable that such a scene beyond the times was quite dazzling at the time. You must know that it was 1968 when humans had not yet landed on the moon.
At the same time, "The Blue Danube", the soundtrack that occupies the largest length in "2001: A Space Odyssey", debuted. In such atmospheric and poetic music, the spacecraft slowly moved in the vast universe, and at the same time showed the audience the vacuum, weightlessness and silence of the universe. This section is very slow, like many other clips in the film, but it is exactly what a space epic needs. As a space epic, the description of the state of several stages of history is better than the story. At this time, the use of classical music is indeed the most appropriate. As said at the beginning of this article, we need to shift the focus of our daily movie watching at this time. We should not regard it as a feature film, but as an opera or a concert. You will not criticize its lack. The story and the slow pace of it. For me personally, the soundtrack played a major role in this. Playing "Blue Danube" with a black screen for an hour is not a problem for me.
However, in "2001: A Space Odyssey", human civilization does not develop endlessly. At the peak of human civilization, the black stone stele reappeared. After 4 million years, human beings who are proud of their own civilization are still at a loss for what to do with the black stone stele. Little did they know that the black stele that brought enlightenment also brought the fate of human demise.
The film enters the third part, the exploration of Jupiter. First of all, the Jupiter exploration spacecraft "Discovery" is still calmly showing humans. This section uses a fragment of the ballet Gayane, which is believed to be Soviet composer Aram Khachaturian. Compared with the grand poetry of "Blue Danube", although this piece of music is more melodious and beautiful, it is a bit more lonely and desolate. It seems to symbolize the loneliness on the long journey of Jupiter's adventure. It is said that the ring-shaped gravity system display of the spacecraft Discovery made Kubrick in 1968 strenuous, but in the era of no computer CG, no Industrial Light and Magic, "Star Wars" was born 10 years later than it. The crew built a real ring model, and then let it rotate slowly, coupled with a special shooting angle, to complete this segment of motion and life that seems to be on the inner wall of a hollow asteroid.
The film then explored a proposition about artificial intelligence, and this plot also constitutes one of the few story climaxes in "2001: A Space Odyssey". I don’t know whether the discussion of artificial intelligence was advanced in 1968, but one sentence in the film left a deep impression on me: “The supercomputer HAL simulates most of the human brain activity, and it can express human emotions. As for it is It's not really emotional, I don't think anyone can know." The difference between showing emotion and real emotion is a unique understanding, and I think this is also where human beings identify with their own soul.
The climax of the film is a pure color dazzling technique, in today's view it is the wave pattern of Windows Media Player, and it lasts for 20 minutes. I admit that I have fast-forwarded this paragraph, after all, I am not a masochist, and there is no good soundtrack for this paragraph. I won’t pretend to pretend that this 20-minute Windows Media Player effect shows how great and shocking, I just want to say that this kind of thing is only done by Kubrick. This paragraph should symbolize the process of human beings being sucked into the special space of the black stone tablet, and of course it also exhibits the latest color rendering technology in 1968.
In this special space, we see the future of mankind. Three consecutive shots of characters are cut, allowing history to evolve to the last moment of mankind. When the last human dying, the black stone monument reappeared, standing in a dimension and perspective far higher than that of human beings, announcing the destruction of human civilization. It makes the audience feel sincerely that all the joys, sorrows, sorrows, glory and wealth, the brilliance and glorious history of human civilization, and all dignity, will be unreservedly destroyed without leaving a trace. In the vast expanse of the universe, human civilization is nothing but fleeting small clouds. At this time, the film has completely risen from the Verne-style vision of the future to the level of civilized reincarnation. Here you can feel that "2001 A Space Odyssey" is not just a 1968 visual special effects movie, it is also a similar viewing experience that gave "2001 A Space Odyssey" a lofty position in the history of film.
After the last human being slept, a new life was being conceived again, a new cycle began, and "The Saying of Zarathustra" sounded again. The whole film ends.
Science fiction and fantasy are the main ingredients. Compared with science fiction movies, the most criticized flaw is superficiality. Most science fiction movies are interstellar war action movies. "2001: A Space Odyssey" can be said to be a different genre. It focuses on the outstanding points of science fiction, that is, the worldview, thinking and ideas, and uses the advantages of the film language to do its best to show it. Of course, what should be criticized at this time is its lack of storytelling and slow rhythm. How can science fiction films not be superficial and beautiful?
For movies like "2001: A Space Odyssey", I lack similar experience in viewing movies, and I am at a loss as to how to evaluate it in general. Given that he let me experience the epic of the universe accompanied by a classical concert in the form of a movie, I gave a high evaluation.
This is a bad trend. I found that in the Kubrick movies I have watched, except for "Spartacus", which is interfered with by the drama master, I have given five stars to "Open Eyes", "The Shining" and "2001: A Space Odyssey" , Although their styles and subject matter are completely different.
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