2001: A Space Odyssey

1. The 1960’s was a period in which the Cold War was still taking place. The cold war was not a period of when civilians feared visible intimidations or threats, but a period in which they feared uncertainty. Civilians did not know how, when, or where they will be endangered by manmade weapons of mass destruction. The movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) perfectly embodied the dystopian contexts taking place within the 1960s. For instance, in the opening scene when the apes discover how to use the bone as a weapon, and a tool. This scene has two settings, first at an African desert at the year of 3,000,000 BC. Afterwards, the setting shifts millions of years into the future with the new setting becoming space at 1992. The shift between time,
The most notable scene of the movie is when alien from another planet, Klaatu, gives a speech to human beings on planet earth that their destruction is coming. Klaatu is seen as a peacekeeper in a sense that he is against violence. Klaatu believes that societies should preserve perpetual peace so that a Hopeful Fantasy of utopia may exist. Klaatu has present anxieties as he believes that societies such as human beings on earth will create violence with nuclear weapons, for instance as the ones used in World War II in the 1940s. Klaatu is seemingly close-minded, and too caught up on his ideology what a utopian should be like. Klaatu believes every society should preserve peace like his planet, and he is willing to enforce this belief by eliminating societies that are not similar to his planet such as the human beings on planet
There was a scene in which Dr. Carrington attempts to reason with the Thing, but is ultimately knocked to the side by it. Dr. Carrington is seen as overly optimistic, and ignorant. Dr. Carrington believed that there is a Hopeful Fantasy, and that everything is peaceful, and every individuals can be reasoned with. Dr. Carrington believed that the Thing was something much like humans in a sense that he wanted peace, but he was obviously wrong. The Thing embodies the fear of present anxieties. The thing is a like weapon, it has no emotions, it cannot be reasoned with, and it only knows how to kill, and destroy.Once again, we will apply the context of the Cold War of the 1950s into this scene. The weapon is like the nuclear weapons of mass destruction, it does not discriminate, all it does it destroy, and it cannot be reasoned with because it has no