I am trying to create a visual feast that transcends all the rules and regulations of the text, and reaches the subconscious with emotional and philosophical content... I intend to make the film into a strongly subjective experience, it is the audience Understand it on a conscious level, like music...you can speculate on the film's philosophy and allegory...
- Stanley Kubrick, 1968 America
Don't Say Solaris, Says 2001 A Space Odyssey, the two greatest science fiction films of this century.
Great, it's hard to describe my admiration for these two masterpieces, and it's the only word I can find to describe them.
The first section of the dawn of mankind is a
barren desert, full of rocks, the overall color is strange, the mountains lie soothingly on the horizon, and then we see our ancestors - the orangutan. At the first ray of dawn, a black rectangular boulder vacated among the orangutans. The ape approached the boulder curiously, stepped forward to touch it, and then spread out in awe, paused, and in the next shot, an ape-man raised the long bone of an antelope and hit it frantically. Withered bones on the ground, broken bones splashing, this is a sign of revelation, our ancestors learned to use tools, 4 million years of evolution, the origin of the development of history, civilization, and technology began. (Soundtrack to Ligeti's "Requiem Mass", "Eternal Time", "Concrete")
(The human spaceship sails through space, the background music is the blue Danube) The
third Jupiter project
The computer HAL (IBM?) inside the spaceship controls the navigation of the entire spaceship. HAL has evolved a will, it will lie, and even murder human beings for its own sake, it is even afraid of death, HAL is the finishing touch, it is The most advanced technology of human beings, but in turn, he hides his shortcomings by killing people. He is stronger than human beings. Is this a new evolutionary process of civilization? The dying individual of a civilization must give way to a living new individual? Just like the ape-man in the desert, technology has two sides. He can help human beings or destroy human beings. HAL, the representative of the entire human scientific and technological civilization, in turn begins to devour human beings. There is no room for infinite development of tools and rationality. Maybe development is just a cycle? The more developed tools are, the more we need spiritual beliefs, and the more material science develops, the more conclusions we face that can only be answered by beliefs. The misunderstanding of most people is that scientific methods are used to reach the truth. The surest way is wrong. In the 20th century, people were isolated in an unknown ocean without beliefs. There was widespread inner spiritual fear in human beings, and the development process of civilization with tools as the main body was a terrible process.
In the fourth quarter Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite
Portman's "evolution", in a Louis XVI style room, Portman experienced his own life, an old self, an embryonic self... He is a new Life, an embryo, a new chapter of civilization, a luminous embryo that accumulates great power, Zarathustra said, this is the most shocking sci-fi picture I have ever seen, is this the new birth of civilization? After giving up all the new life gained, perhaps the entire human civilization is a reincarnation, a cycle, a nurture, a cluster of new hopes, this is a great metaphor, it is obvious and extremely poetic, but it cannot be understood. In the process of evolution, they rely too much on tools, but they abandon themselves on the unknown ocean that has lost their spirit and beliefs. Therefore, they need to be reborn, and they need to abandon the tools and reason they rely on, and enter a new myth.
It means the new child of new reincarnation, background music Zarathustra says)
2001 A Space Odyssey and Nietzsche's Philosophy
2001 A Space Odyssey can be regarded as an author's film. Kubrick expresses his inner fear and thinking about human civilization very well. As a great apocalyptic film, there are still many things in it that need us Slowly interpreting and thinking, in 1968, the use of the lens of this film was extremely advanced and full of forward-looking, even after half a century, it is still full of forward-looking, there is no doubt that this is a film that surpasses the entire Great work of the era! Let's talk about the music of the movie, which uses a lot of classical music, the most famous of which is Zarathustra's saying, Nietzsche's philosophy of superman believes that human beings should be surpassed, and reaching the other side means a new departure, eternal reincarnation and The new beginning is contradictory, and the reincarnation of civilization implied by the boulder in the film is compatible with the new beginning represented by the embryonicization of Boman. Creating new freedom requires mythology and new reincarnation.
The soundtrack in 2001 can be described as a classic among classics. Kubrick pioneered the application of classical music in this forward-looking sci-fi apocalypse, which is extremely shocking. In particular, the combination of Zarathustra's words has always been a good story in film history. It is magnificent and shocking.
In the face of the revelation of this century, we can only constantly feel the insignificance and humbleness of ourselves. Human civilization is developing rapidly, but the lack of belief is still not a problem for most people in today's society where technology, tools, and reason are highly developed. What is important, man has existed for so long, but he still can't determine the most important thing_The meaning of his existence, in today's God is dead, we can only be our own God, we are abandoned by the dying God in the unknown ocean Among them, we need faith, we need a helmsman, no matter whether human beings want to get rid of the firm control of reason, or whether they want to abandon the tools they rely on too much, we must surpass ourselves! ! ! ! This is Nietzsche's philosophy, and perhaps what Kubrick wanted to express.
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