Yet, what the monolith gave the monkey-men was not the knowledge to use tools. This is implied through the sudden use of tools by the proto-humans after their encounter with the monolith. That question of “where did the monolith come from? where is it going?” is at the same time the question, “where did I come from, where am I going?” We understand the monolith to be the impetus for the proto-human evolution into the humans we see later in the film. The desire to understand brought by the cosmic black box now infects their minds. No longer is survival the only concern of these pre sapient creatures. By making the monolith physical through touch, the proto-humans attempt to bring this great unknown into their rudimentary lexicon of understanding. The gesture is immediately recognizable as curiosity. The proto-humans gather around the monolith and begin to repeatedly touch or stroke its surface. Quickly this emotion seems to give way to another. When the proto-humans first discover the monolith they appear almost afraid.
In this way, Space Odyssey exemplifies a core aspect of human experience: obsession with the unknown and the desire to bring meaning to it by any means necessary.įrom within the world of the film, this great unknown is represented by the monolith.
It is the film’s very uninterpretability that has drawn so many critics and scholars to it in the first place. Yet, interpreting that meaning can become next to impossible in a film so grandiose in scale. Rather, 2001 is a film in the purest visual sense: a collection of images which play off our notions of pattern recognition to hint at greater meaning.
#2001 a space odyssey meaning 1 movie
It is a movie with no clear singular plot. 2001, A Space Odyssey is a film which many have attempted to interpret throughout the years.
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