2001 Space Odyssey

Whitney and I watched a classic movie lsat night as we baked bread (an emerging interest in our lives!). Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey is a film now hailed as a classic. Wikipedia summed up the movie by saying...

"2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction film directed by Stanley Kubrick, written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. The film deals with thematic elements of human evolution, technology, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial life, and is notable for its scientific realism, pioneering special effects, and provocatively ambiguous and often surreal imagery, sound in place of traditional narrative techniques and a very minimal use of dialogue.
Despite receiving mixed reviews upon release, 2001: A Space Odyssey is today recognized by critics as one of the greatest films ever made; the 2002 Sight & Sound poll of critics ranked it among the top ten films of all time.[1] It was nominated for four Academy Awards, and received one for visual effects. In 1991, it was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in their National Film Registry.
The film set a new standard for science fiction special effects for both film and television."

I was surprised by two facts that appeared on the outside out the Netflix envelope in which we received the DVD. Firstly, I couldn't believe that the film was made in 1968. Shooting began for the film in 1965, and was released before we landed on the moon. I would imagine that the progressive film captured audiences in new ways (visual and audio) when it first came out 40 years ago. I was also surprised when the film received a G rating. No doubt, the most stunning G movie ever!

After the movie was finished, Whitney and I looked at each other and tried to interpret the film. Well, we did no get very far. So I researched a quote from Kubrick

"You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded in gripping the audience at a deep level—but I don't want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to pursue or else fear he's missed the point."

We enjoyed the film and will enjoy viewing it again in the near future.