Yeah, I think you're either with 2001 or against 2001 - not sure if there a middle ground. I'm definitely with it. The film is a work of genius - philosophically rich and open to multiple interpretations about what the film is all about. And from a technical point of view the film trail blazed special effects and the use of existing classical music was revolutionary - not that it hadn't been done before - Swan Lake opens Tod Browning's Dracula but Kubrick's idea to have the space station waltz around the Earth to the strains of The Blue Danube, that juxtaposition of image and music - 21st century technology and 19th century art was genuinely startling at that time. And the jump cut from the bone to satellite is one of the greatest moments in Cinema, 4 million years of evolution sweep by in one cut - extraordinary stuff !
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