


2001 isn't as much of a film as it is a visual symphony which explores the ideas of the interstellar at a time when the world's interest in space was at an all-time high due to the all-mythical space race nearing it's last sprint. Strangelove but i'm talking on a reputation level). It was a film that was made roughly over the course of a tenuous three years in which Stanley Kubrick proved himself one of the 1960s most quintessential directors with this film alone (yes, I'm aware of Spartacus, Lolita, and Dr. Now here's why I'm such a fan of it.Ģ001: A Space Odyssey came out a whopping 14 months before Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins won the space race for the United States via Apollo 11. Over two hours tons of groundbreaking visual effects a psychedelic stargate sequence and interiors that look like something out of almost every film it's influenced. Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea) and other astronauts are sent on a mysterious mission, their ship's computer system, HAL, begins to display increasingly strange behavior, leading up to a tense showdown between man and machine that results in a mind-bending trek through space and time. An imposing black structure provides a connection between the past and the future in this enigmatic adaptation of a short story by revered sci-fi author Arthur C.
