SCIENCE FICTION

2001: A Space Odyssey



2001: A Space Odyssey

Introduction

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke. It was written along with Stanley Kubrick's film version; however, published after the release of the film. The story based in part on various short stories by Clarke, most notably "The Sentinel"(Westfahl, 2005).

Discussion

Kubrick provides a clear and transparent guide his narrative purpose, not only in this film, but in all his films. Black police has made films, war movies, melodrama, horror, and has also dabbled in irony, cruel and ruthless has dissected the society. However, all his work exudes ideological and formal coherence that lies at the level of the great filmmakers.

The music and the first images are almost a conceptual prelude to the film; the spacecraft transiting the vastness of space travel on the discovery of the two crews trying to unravel the mysteries of the mission. The enigmatic HAL 9000 computer, real machine, macabre and perverse nation which, fears converge mythical ancestral hominid and fear of the unknown and the unknown, plus the huge transformation (Wheat, 2000). After, crossing the gates of infinity are real parables, allegories and metaphorical approaches to the essentiality of man, concentrated in the fierce race for the rampant manipulation of science and technology that sometimes holds mysteries horrible and uncontrollable.

However, we can envision two ways, the product of two approaches to address these issues and these revelations. On the one hand, Clarke, focusing on the scientific elucidation of the destinations and the paths of Homo sapiens, and Kubrick based on violence and aggression and excessive abuse of this science, violence is not more than the result of evolution, and that seems to have arisen before and in the wake of the emergence of man. Now, in "The Sentinel" Clarke was the ...