Kubrick In The Film, 2001: A Space Odyssey
“…the Romantic allegory presents a “return journey” undertaken through – and ultimately transformative of – the perception of the protagonist, whose sublime encounter with metatemporal Nature presents the possibility of a purely spiritual becoming which is also a homecoming.” (Rowe, 56) Kubrick as a director and writer, does not convey meaning and emotion through the traditional senses, but rather uses allegory and metaphor within films to provide a baseline for meaning. This implicit nature is what sets Kubrick apart from many other directors, and can be considered as one of the many traditional Kubrickian styles. Throughout the career of Kubrick many societal influences shaped and moulded the Kubrick expectation, whether that regards to the
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Relationships, of both obvious and hidden nature, romantic and friendly, and human and non-human, are the ever-prevailing cause of development and evolution of people. Within 2001: A Space Odyssey and by using apes, humans and robots, Kubrick demonstrates cause and effect between the biological nature of animals, and the influence on human designed artificial intelligence, that causes evolution and development due to the use and abuse of relationships.
The film 2001: A Space Odyssey opens with a 16 minute, dialogue free sequence, containing only apes. These apes speak no dialogue, only using grunts and motions to express emotion, intent, and to keep the story moving. A tribe of these apes begin by eating and competing for plants along side several tapirs. A leopard attacks one of the apes within this group, and the apes change location to a watering hole. While at this watering hole, another group, or tribe of apes’ approach, creating a commotion and causing a territorial fight for the watering hole. From this fight, one of the ape tribes is expelled from the watering hole, though it is unclear which of the tribes this was. The expelled tribe is forced to relocate within a grouping of rocks, where a skeletal pile is found, and a femur is used to create a weapon. It is
Relationships, of both obvious and hidden nature, romantic and friendly, and human and non-human, are the ever-prevailing cause of development and evolution of people. Within 2001: A Space Odyssey and by using apes, humans and robots, Kubrick demonstrates cause and effect between the biological nature of animals, and the influence on human designed artificial intelligence, that causes evolution and development due to the use and abuse of relationships.
The film 2001: A Space Odyssey opens with a 16 minute, dialogue free sequence, containing only apes. These apes speak no dialogue, only using grunts and motions to express emotion, intent, and to keep the story moving. A tribe of these apes begin by eating and competing for plants along side several tapirs. A leopard attacks one of the apes within this group, and the apes change location to a watering hole. While at this watering hole, another group, or tribe of apes’ approach, creating a commotion and causing a territorial fight for the watering hole. From this fight, one of the ape tribes is expelled from the watering hole, though it is unclear which of the tribes this was. The expelled tribe is forced to relocate within a grouping of rocks, where a skeletal pile is found, and a femur is used to create a weapon. It is