Travel Through Space and Time

With watching the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, a journey through the dawn of man and his journey through space with a computer intellect on his space craft, there were many questions to be answered. Firstly, the music is very iconic in this movie and is a character in itself since there is very little dialogue to be had. There is really no narrator of the story and everything must be figured out by oneself. The movies is really broken into three or four sections depending on how you view it. One with the monkey ape things, two with the space travel to the moon, three with the expedition to Jupiter, and four at the final ending of the travel through time and space.

Through out the whole movie i was particularly confused. With no dialogue it was hard to know what was meant to be interpreted with the actions that were seen on the screen. From what i gathered from the movie, the pillar that randomly appears is the key to evolution in species; ape to man and man to space baby. The only thing that is interesting about the pillar is that it appears and vanishes without a trace. But when they found it on the moon, it is supposedly 4 million years old.

Time seems to be very splotchy in this movie. There are abrupt jumps in the sequencing and it does not allow for full thinking to occur before it throws you into another scene or time. Also when the professor is talking to the people on the space station, he is very vague about his mission. This also translates to the movie as a whole. With the discovery of the pillar on the moon comes the first "AI". It is interesting in this movie unlike many of the other ones that we watch, that man did not create Artificial Intelligence, but that it is given to him and the human race. This in turn was used to help create the Computer that helped through the entire journey to Jupiter.

Just like in Ex-Machina and Bladerunner, the computer, HAL, or artificial intelligence took it upon itself to fix the problem that is the human race. This is not uncommon since we make mistakes and the computer and find solutions that do not involve emotional aspects that could change the answer. Still with all the answers we as humans will find a way to persevere, or change in the case of this movie into the Alien baby at the end.

I will say to anyone who might possibly watch this, at the end of the movie, please do not be on any drugs or be impaired by any substance because you will trip soooo hard. I was wondering myself what was going on for about 7 minutes straight of crazy colors and sounds that had me tripping when i was perfectly fine.