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Originally Posted by RLacey
I disagree in that I think 2001 is a vapid, soulless film that can't even manage to be a triumph of style over substance (perhaps its only defence is that it has some nice camera work) due to its obsession with being utterly tedious and uninteresting. It's too long, too boring and way too overhyped.
Other than that you're right  .
*runs from the 2001 fans* |
You're right in that it's boring and tedious, and even soulless. But that's the point. Kubrick doesn't want you to connect with eith of the men on the Jupiter space station, in fact he wants you to feel more emotionally involved with HAL than the people. The computer shows more emotion than they do (HAL's death scene is curiously tragic, watching him plead for his "life"). The idea is both a warning of when technology becomes *too* human, and also how humans will become less human in the technological age.
