2001: A Space Odyssey A Prophecy of our Times Have you ever watched the iconic movie ‘2001: A Space Odyssey?’ If not, I would encourage you to do so but brace yourself for a mind-boggling adventure as this film can still puzzle us today as it did half a century ago when it was released in 1968. With its showcase of the future technology, it can be seen as a blueprint of the digital world we are living in today and a true masterpiece of science-fiction. KUBRICK AND CLARK Collaboration on the Plot With the most amazing director at the time, Stanely Kubrick and a celebrated sci-fi writer Arthur C. Clark working together on this project, you are in for an absolute treat. The opening film scene depicts a group of ape-like humans jumping around a mysterious black monolith. This encounter initiates a change in the behavior of one of the ape-men who discovers his own strength by using a bone as a weapon and killing another apeman. I don’t know about you, but the shape of this black slimline
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By Ivana Fletcher
monolith strangely resembles one of the iPhones and we know that mobile phones with internet access have brought huge benefits to our lives but also many dangers like instant access to pornography and cyber bullying to name a few. The next scene catapults us into space, millions of years into the future. A gigantic, two-wheel shaped spaceship is set to go on a mission to investigate another monolith on Jupiter. There are only a few crew members, of which two are astronauts and three are scientists in hibernating state.
