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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) + Extras [w/Commentary]
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
BDRip 720p | MKV | 1280 x 720 | x264 @ 2048 Kbps | 2h 28mn | 2,80 Gb + 1,74 Gb
Audio: English AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps + Commentary track | Subtitles: English
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi | Director: Stanley Kubrick
BDRip 720p | MKV | 1280 x 720 | x264 @ 2048 Kbps | 2h 28mn | 2,80 Gb + 1,74 Gb
Audio: English AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps + Commentary track | Subtitles: English
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi | Director: Stanley Kubrick
"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.
IMDB - Top Rated Movies #91 | Won 1 Oscar
For all those bewildered by the length and pace of this film ("like, why does he show spaceships docking for, like, 15 minutes?"), here's a word you might want to think about:
Beauty.
Beauty is an under-rated concept. Sure, you'll often see nice photography and so on in films. But when did you last see a film that contains beauty purely for the sake of it? There is a weird belief among cinemagoers that anything which is not plot or character related must be removed. This is depressing hogwash. There is nothing wrong with creating a beautiful sequence that has nothing to do with the film's plot. A director can show 15 minutes of spaceships for no reason than that they are beautiful, and it is neither illegal nor evil to do so.
'2001' requires you to watch in a different way than you normally watch films. It requires you to relax. It requires you to experience strange and beautiful images without feeling guilty that there is no complex plot or detailed characterization. Don't get me wrong, plots and characters are good, but they're not the be-all and end-all of everything. There are different KINDS of film, and to enjoy '2001' you must tune your brain to a different wavelength and succumb to the pleasure of beauty, PURE beauty, unfettered by the banal conventions of everyday films.
"All art is quite useless" - Oscar Wilde.
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) + Extras [w/Commentary]
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Audio Commentary with actors Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood
Extras:
– Audio interview with director Stanley Kubrick by Jeremy Bernstein (76:30)
– "Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001" featurette (21:25)
– "A Look Behind the Future" featurette (23:11)
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