So I'm watching 2001, a movie that I haven't seen in quite a while. And two things occur to me? One, that I so miss my house! Music like this is meant to be played loud! And second, beyond all of the beautiful images done with classical music, there is an interesting story line.
The significants of the Monolith, is that it provides for a divine intellect, one much more advanced then the monkey men of earth! So even from an evolutionary point of view, the movie shows that a divine intervention had to have occurred to have had us monkey men become who we are today? Interestingly, the first lesson, or more accurately, the monkeys first reaction, is to become better killers? First of game, and then, killers of each other. That is where the movie looses its hold on how people think of themselves and mankind in general, that we are basically good? The truth is, that we are basically bad, but we are trying to become good. No matter your opinion on the goodness and badness of man, you would have to agree, that it was a dismal start for a people supposedly so moral in a mere 2000 years?
So the whole premise of the film is flawed, in that the monkeys may well have been enamored by the monolith, and wondered at this divine intellect, but then, the very first thing they do, is go out and kill each other! No wonder the aliens in the movie wanted no part of us!
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