THE ASTOR REVIEW

Kubrick’s milestone masterpiece with many underlying, profound themes embodied under a science-fiction plot. 2001 traces our evolution from the leap out of the animal kingdom by the instilling of intelligence, to our ultimate fate confronting our destiny with the unknown. Magnificent use of the film medium. Co-scripted by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke (based on his short story “The Sentinel”) EXCLUSIVE 43rd Anniversary 70mm Screenings. George Florence

IMDB SYNOPSIS

2001 is a story of evolution. Sometime in the distant past, someone or something nudged evolution by placing a monolith on Earth (presumably elsewhere throughout the universe as well). Evolution then enabled humankind to reach the moon's surface, where yet another monolith is found, one that signals the monolith placers that humankind has evolved that far. Now a race begins between computers (HAL) and human (Bowman) to reach the monolith placers. The winner will achieve the next step in evolution, whatever that may be.