2001: A Space Odyssey - Horror of the Void (film analysis / commentary)

Like this, then watch ... Hidden depths of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXynF2RQJPs&t=1s ALIEN: The Chameleon Effect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoyoFotOXgU The Kubrickian James Bond movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm6BwZFS838 Dissecting HANNIBAL LECTER in SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (character analysis) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZMhzhBr1tE 2001: Meaning of the Monolith Revealed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpWMnlMIWAU

I made the mistake of first watching this when my family was away for week on vacation and I was house sitting alone in the countryside without transportation. Those long sequences with no sound but the air compressor really got to me. It just drove the loneliness home.

I find 2001 to be an unsettling and creepy experience. The scenery and the music really do evoke feelings of loneliness and anxiety about encountering the unknown

I mean absolutely no disrespect by this but I actually use this video to go to sleep, I have really bad adhd and it often hard for me to sleep when my brain is bouncing around for lack of a better word, but something about your voice really helps me to focus on one thing, it calms me. Something about your deep analysis and clear passion for this film just helps me to settle down even during panic attacks. All this to say this video is incredibly well done and really helped me so thank you.

This movie always reminds me of something I would have watched with my parents as a kid when it came on tv, but forget about it until I remember that weird feeling of not understanding again. Its so weird how this film is the most "family friendly" of Kubrick's films, but also asks us the deepest questions about ourselves.

When people ask me what my favorite movie is of all-time, I always say without hesitation, “2001: A Space Odyssey”. When they ask me why, I can’t really answer. It just makes me feel something, that I can’t really describe. Its something that no other film can make me feel. It is terror at times, isolation.....I mean, Dave is all alone, billions of miles from home, accompanied only by a homicidal AI computer. As Dave blasts himself back into the Discovery, the tension is fantastic. He makes his way into the computer, helmet on just in case HAL pulls anything. Its a long scene, drawn out, HAL pleading for his life. We almost feel for HAL momentarily, but absolutely must disconnect him as he cannot be trusted. Got a chance to see 2001 in an IMAX theater last year. It still looks remarkably good, despite being much older than I am.

Thanks for releasing this for free Mr. Ager.

Thanks for noting that one of the skeletons in the "Dawn of Man" sequence is human, or at least hominid. I hadn't noticed that. Burial their dead, either out of respect for fellow humans, or with some thought of the afterlife, is regarded as an essential characteristic of 'being human'. Thus it is particularly noteworthy that the crucial man vs. machine scene is initiated by Bowman's desire to properly retrieve & care for Poole's dead body.

When my Dad took me to see it when I was 5 yrs old I found it very scary, especially at the end when he turned into an old man, that scared me to death!!

Wow, swapping out the optimist music for the creepy music (and vice-versa) in those space travel scenes completely changes the mood! Well done.

9:45 - This moment where the glorious melody emerges as the stars align perfectly seems almost like Kubrick saying: "perfection is as rare as a solar eclipse, and yet is guaranteed to exist in some space and time, by virtue of the laws of physics".

I don't have words really with how much I love this. And seeing the other films and books you are into, I am so glad I found your content!

The moment when we see the “life functions critical” and “life functions terminated” flash on the screen always freaks me out. So simple but somehow terrifying.

This is the deepest film ever made, it’s an absolute masterpiece in every sense of the word, Kubrick thought it out so meticulously, like no other film compares to the monstrosity of the analysis here. You can try and decipher it for a lifetime and that is why it’s so brilliant. We can study it and study it but will never know exactly what it all means, true art.

My brother bought 2001 on vhs, having both of us never seen it... we thought the tape was broken in the first 3 minutes lol

I still can't belive this movie is from 1968!!!

I always preferred to think that Hal‘s “malfunction“ was due to the monolith’s presence influencing his intelligence as it did the human’s. Like then, the result was murder.

In the book on making 2001, the anti-gravity toilet scene was put in for a bit of comic relief. The Blue Danube waltz was chosen for the docking scene simply because it was an easily recognizable piece of classical music signifying man's evolution into the Arts. The Pan Am logo was chosen as it was thought at that time to be a timeless brand, like Coke. The Discovery was designed to look like a bone, the first tool used in the film. It's shape was a metaphor.

A nearly 2 hour video discussing my favourite film of all time? How could I say no

I always loved how during the second water hole scene, the apes that learned to use tools were walking upright, while the others were still on all fours. :-)