Tuesday 29 May 2012

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/
Adventure, Sci-Fi
Stanley Kubrick
Sean Sullivan, Ann Gillis, Leonard Rossiter, Glenn Beck, Robert Beatty, Gary Lockwood, Keir Dullea, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Margaret Tyzack, Douglas Rain, Frank Miller, Bill Weston, Ed Bishop, Alan Gifford
6 April 1968 (USA)
"2001" is a story of evolution. Sometime in the distant past, someone or something nudged evolution by placing a monolith on Earth (presumably elsewhere throughout the universe as well). Evolution then enabled humankind to reach the moon's surface, where yet another monolith is found, one that signals the monolith placers that humankind has evolved that far. Now a race begins between computers (HAL) and human (Bowman) to reach the monolith placers. The winner will achieve the next step in evolution, whatever that may be.

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