2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY2
the humans and the human technology have been depicted in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey
(Guzman, 2017).
The depiction of the humans and the human technology in the movie 2001: A Space
Odyssey has been done way by the filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. The director of the movie has
used all of his filmmaking skills to make sure that the audiences clearly understands the
depiction and the relationship between these two principal characters in the movie
(Caracciolo, 2016). The film 2001: A Space Odyssey depicts and explains the relationship
between the humanity and the technology through the use of the violence in the futuristic
society through the use of the alien monolith as a guide to the events happening in the film
(Kapferer, 2001). The concept of the evolution of the human being are shown in the film at
the beginning in the form of the ape like creatures dying out. They are shown to be
herbivorous in nature, as they are found to be vulnerable to the predators of the times (Clarke,
2016). The earliest relationship between these humanoid creatures and technology is shown
to be in the form of the alien black monolith, which shows the audience how this pre-human
creature was able to make weapons which would help them to hunt other animals and protect
themselves from the predators (Kubrick, 1968).
2001: A Space Odyssey is a film which tells the audiences of the film about the story
of the human civilization and how the humans in the civilizations have been linked with the
use of the technology ever since the birth of the living organisms (Saini et.al, 2017). The
story of the movie focuses on the relationship between the humans and the human technology
through the conflict which the humans face in the movie with the technologies themselves
(Kubrick, 1968). Thus conflict is seen in the case of the artificial intelligence of the
spacecraft enroute to the planet Jupiter. This A.I. named HAL kills the humans whom it
considered to be threatening, until being killed by David Bowman who was the last surviving
members of the space crew in the spacecraft. This conflict between the humans and the

+13062052269

info@desklib.com

2001: A Space Odyssey

Contribute Materials