In the first ten minutes of the film, the flashing black, silent, and only scenes of orangutans really made me think, um... well, it feels good to be filmed like a National Geographic documentary at that time... After all, the color of the picture and the orangutan's The effect was very realistic at that time! (I'm still studying the changes in the eyes of the leopard, the hair of the orangutan... It's really starting... It's boring, but surprises often come later, aren't they)
But obviously I'm blaming Master Ku, as the film progresses, I start to stand At that time, look at the "prophecies" that appeared in this film, those that are indispensable in our lives today (ipad/sari/...), and the scenes that are often seen in American blockbusters (video communication/space capsule/screen control) Display screen ..), Master Cool has already helped to set it up at that time, I can understand the imagination of future trends, but it is really a scientist to be able to set the details and future products. Of course, there are also some fantasies that go against scientific theories, such as wandering around without any fixed objects in the moon, but the space station only existed in 1971, so it seems that the scientific significance of the film is also great. Compared with the "Gravity" Cameron's storyline setting, it seems very rigid. It may be precisely because there is no restraint of any straps that the cool master can be more imaginative.
The surprise is that in terms of shooting and color, it seems that the skills and film quality are not inferior today, from the black silence at the beginning of the world, to the red and green background of the space station, to the orange when the speed of light travels and the alien creatures. The fantasy of shape is considered to be a transcendence of the color films of that era. In terms of shooting, including the vertical angle of the black crystal and the sky at the beginning, the transition between the bones and the spaceship, the background of the starry sky, the feeling of people walking in space, the setting of the model, the 360 ° shooting angle.... Although some The close-up shots are hard-lighted, and you can feel that the model is different from the current CG effect, but the whole film as a whole can be described as perfect and cannot be regarded as a film in the 1960s. Master, maybe he is the one whose creation will never lag behind in any era.
As for the theme of the film, I feel that Kubrick is a pessimist (I don't know if it should be defined as such), although the film does not mention the scientific crisis, but Hall has appeared to betray and destroy the human motive. Obviously, the point of the cool master is not on humans vs robots (or it will also make today's American standard genre films), but a visual proof and extension of Nietzsche's point of view.
The music of "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" can be considered a clue, and in Nietzsche's writings, Superman and Eternal Return are also mentioned. The end of the film is the death of the protagonist and the birth of a baby. If it is said in the book, all living things create something beyond themselves, so there is "Hall". The orangutan dies, the human being is born, the human being dies, the newborn is born, everything is eternal reincarnation. Therefore, the appearance of black crystals in the film is more like an interpretation of a "door". The whole film appears at the beginning and the end respectively, implying the road to eternity. But it is more like a confirmation of what my husband often said: "Where did you come from?".
At the end, the protagonist travels back to the modern age, and then becomes an old man. The performance of the actors makes people feel that they are not in the same dimension, which reminds me of a movie I watched before. I wonder if it is an interpretation of the fourth-dimensional space. In Christianity, man is the product of God, "God died, and the superman was born." Are these related to the imaginary of eternal life? In this way, it can really be a veritable Superman, so Eternal Reincarnation and Superman can exist at the same time.
I haven't read the original book, and I haven't read Nietzsche's book. I just got a rough understanding of some points, and then I wrote a relatively long film review in bits and pieces. I really thought about it. I always feel that such a sci-fi film is meaningful. Ah, to worship Master Ku even more, it's really cool! You are the Zarathustra master of cinematography among director scientists.
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