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Genres:
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Adventure /
Drama /
Mystery /
Sci-Fi
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Release:
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Director:
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Stanley Kubrick
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Actors:
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Keir Dullea,
Leonard Rossiter,
Alan Gifford,
Gary Lockwood,
Ann Gillis,
William Sylvester,
Margaret Tyzack,
Robert Beatty,
Sean Sullivan,
Ed Bishop,
Douglas Rain,
Frank Miller,
Bill Weston,
Daniel Richter,
Glenn Beck
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Duration:
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135 min.
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Rating:
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(8.4/10)139.5
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Plot Summary:
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2001 is a story of evolution. Sometime in the frigid days beyond recall someone or something nudged evolution by placing a monolith here on earth (presumably elsewhere throughout the province as well) Evolving then enabled people to reach the moon's face where he finds still another monolith, one which signals the monolith-placers that we have evolved that set the Thames on fire. In the present climate a nation begins between computers (HAL) and man (Bowman) to reach the monolith-placers, the champ wishes achieve the next step in development, whatever that may be.
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Birth, Death, Re-birth.....geddit ??
This film is simply a masterpiece.
Any film that can explain evolution of man.....death of man....and rebirth of a new species in little over 2 hours deserves 5 stars.
C'mon even a film as poor and insignificant as Pearl Harbour lasts 3 hours........3 looooong hours.
Go to http://www.kubrick2001.com/2001. html
for a layman's guide.
2001: A Space Odyssey
We know what the year 2001 looks like now, and it doesn't look much like Kubrick's vision. But 2001: A Space Odyssey itself still looks immaculate. Spectacular, trailblazing and philosophical, it's an undisputed masterpiece
Kubrick, cinema's chilliest genius, abandons conventional narrative here and presents a succession of beautifully-composed sketches on the theme of evolution, death and rebirth linked by the mystical presence of a large black monolith.
A fight between a group of proto-human apes demonstrates man's first use of tools, as one seizes a bone and adopts it as a weapon after experiencing some sort of epiphany by contact with the black slab.
A brilliant jump cut from the bone hurled into the air to a spacecraft floating in space ...
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