Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 A Space Odyssey is a film to seeks to get us to both see and feel the past and ongoing stages of human evolution. The beginning of the film is a black screen with subtle humming sound that can be heard. Many viewers have often asked what this, and why it’s in the film. I believe that it’s the Monolith (the black slate that helps continue mans evolution) is trying to communicate, and pass on information to the audience member at home, but it’s so advanced and beyond our human understanding that to use it as a black screen and only sound like mumbled noise. We, the contemporary viewer, are not ready or worthy enough to understand the information it’s trying to communicate to us. This is proceeded by a stream of brilliant colors and rays of light. We are finally able to begin understanding what it is the monolith want to show us, that the human race came out of a primitive and savage time, ruled over by animals and beats. No order. Just survival of the fittest. The monkey's fight over water, showing the viewer that humans need to fight for resources comes from our primal past.
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