Re: Films that People Just Don't Get the Actual Point
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Magna 1,000,000
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Roj
What do you want it to be about?
Religion, finding the creator, evolution, robotics and computers judging us, exploration. Its of its time.
For me it was just beautiful watching this in the 70s, but maybe by or standards nowadays it looks dated. A good visual accompaniment to a joint.
The HAL storyline is the existentialism of artificial intelligence and how something without emotions that doesnt understand "shutdown" as a concept of sleep because it never sleeps will kill to survive.
The monolith storyline is entering a pure energy 'wormhole' that has been engineered for higher beings to traverse the cosmos to study life. This is entered by Bowman and a his physical body entering such a thing elevated him to a pure energy being where he can inhabit all forms of energy at one time, which is shown as a hotel room where he witnesses himself in multiple forms before becoming a "star child" depicted as a baby in a bubble looking at earth
In the remake '2010' missing astronaut Dave Bowman reappears again with a warning to citizens of Earth ......was aligned to the threat of a massive nuclear war between the old Soviet Union and the US
Good film although if I'm honest Space Odyssey was a little tricky to understand for the average punter .....but most of Kubrik's films tended to be like that
The film that really freaked me out or have no idea if there's a real point or plot
Twin Peaks