is not meant to show that I understand the movie, which is impossible.
Stanley Kubrick ’s work has a magical power. After watching the movie, you can’t wait to read the original novel, especially this " " Movies and novels are created synchronously. You can't understand only watching movies, and just watching novels is not addictive. Therefore, the comments are polarized. Some people say that this movie is tedious and drowsy. It is just a B-movie. A more reasonable person would say that a movie that is interpreted by a novel is not a good movie. Those who follow it think that this movie is the greatest science fiction movie, with epoch-making significance in the history of film, and then add one sentence: Although I don't understand it.
We have no right to judge other people's viewing attitudes, nor do we need to blame the bundling strategy of movies and novels. Even Kubrick himself is unwilling to explain to fans what the film is about and what connotations it contains. He encourages us to think for ourselves and give this film some meaning by ourselves, and use this as a starting point to recreate Appreciating this film may be the best way to let go of prejudice and obsession, and it is also the original intention for me to write this film review.
There is a black screen for nearly 3 minutes at the beginning of the movie. The monotonous harsh background music is like a kind of noise pollution. It is estimated that some people will continue to complain when it is released. It is difficult to enter the cinema to watch the movie and relax. Unexpectedly, not only is there nothing on the screen, but it also makes people upset. Whether it’s the warm-up of the initial mood or the beginning of metaphorical chaos, this kind of music and this “long” mental pollution all suggest that this movie is extraordinary.
waited for a few minutes, the music finally stopped, the feature film began, it was a group of animals, the audience's heart:? ? ? ? ?
waited for a long time to see an animal show? There are apes,Pigs, and leopards. At first, apes only eat plants. When they eat, they will drive away the pigs that are close to them. At this time, the relationship between them is pure competition.
Then a leopard appeared, and it cruelly killed an ape ("just" strange), a predator appeared in this group, which is different from other animals, it eats meat, The survival of the apes is threatened.
It seems that there is only one source of water. The apes are divided into two families. When one family wants to drink water here, the other family has already occupied the territory. Loudly screamed to drive away outsiders, and as a result, internal competition was created.
At night, the cries of hungry leopards made the apes frightened and unable to fall asleep. They had to get together, always guarding against the leopards.
One morning, the apes discovered a novelty. A smooth and neat black stone slab stood squarely on the ground. They were both curious and a little frightened about the strange thing, and went cautiously. Touch it, noisy and scream around it. However, in the end they obviously lost interest in this slate and continued their own lives.
The apes didn’t realize the impact this slab had on them, until an ape became interested in a pile of bones, and noticed that the ape suddenly thought of raising his head. When I came, the picture was cut to the black stone slab. Above the black stone slab is the dazzling sun, and above the sun is a shallow crescent. The picture cuts back to the ape, which tilted its head thoughtfully. Picked up a longer bone at the foot, and at first, it held this bone and compared it with each other.Then lightly tapped the bones on the ground. As the music played, the camera cut to the raised hands in the air. Then, a slow motion recorded how the ape severely smashed the skeleton on the ground with the bones in his hands. At the same time, incorporate the scene of the pig suddenly falling to the ground.
As a result, apes (human ancestors) discovered tools and learned to use them. They became predators and began to eat meat. Then the bones became their weapon for fighting for water, which was discovered later. A tool family suffered a big loss because of this.
It is not difficult to imagine that with the passage of time, our ancestors will no longer be afraid of leopards. The weapons in their hands can give these ferocious but unintelligent large carnivores a fatal blow.
In this way, the black slate has a certain connection with the ape (ancestor) learning and using tools. There can be several guesses
1. It has a certain invisible energy, which induces the ape (ancestor) to think , Let them get acquainted, learn to use and modify tools.
2. It is a purely inorganic object, a stone with a special appearance. The process of ape never coming to meet (using tools) is a process from being to nothing, and the appearance of this slate is also A process from being to nothing, after analogy, this stone slab can be regarded as a revelation.
3. The black slate is just a symbol, marking evolution, but the formation of a symbol is a process. It is based on the relationship between competition and predation, and the relationship between survival and evolution continues to strengthen as the demand for survival continues to increase. Eventually it becomes the signifier of "evolution".
As for the source of the black slate, I will mention it below.
The picture of the ape throwing bones into the air dissolves the spacecraft in the universe,This is not difficult to understand. The original tools have been continuously modified, and the apes continue to evolve until the birth of humans. It is only a matter of time from using bones to conquering space with aircraft.
Freud’s trip to the moon has three main contents
1. Show advanced aviation technology, establish the concept of "space travel", including the use of various advanced inventions: videophone, CNC Technology, sound testing, artificial gravity toilets, and various measures to deal with weightless environments. In addition, the operation process, docking process, and landing process of the spacecraft are displayed in more detail. Only the scene of the aircraft falling into the moon base lasted 4 minutes, and the scene of slowly falling was nearly 1 minute. Don’t think this one minute is short. There are many such one-minutes in the movie. For many people, it is tantamount to a long suffering.
2. Leading out the main line, some kind of "infectious disease" appeared in the Kravis base on the moon, but Freud himself was silent when asked by others. (Something bad must have happened) After arriving at the base, he spoke at the meeting, praising the work of the base personnel, and proposed to keep the "infectious disease" matter confidential.
3. Visit the black slate of the moon, yes, the black slate reappeared on the moon and generated a very strong magnetic rock magnetic field. According to research, this black slab is 400 Ten thousand years ago was "cautiously buried" in the soil, which indicates that some advanced civilization existed in the universe before human beings were born. Therefore, it is not difficult to guess why the base personnel kept this secret. The people on earth were told that there are more ancient in the universe,Even more advanced civilizations will impact and confuse society.
When Freud and his party arrived at the spot where the slate was found, something strange happened. They heard a sharp electronic sound.
I have to mention the black slate again. I made three guesses before. At this point, we know that this slate has energy. We don’t know what the specific energy is. In addition, the plot description , This slate was placed here "artificially". As for who put it and why, it is not mentioned in the movie. However, there are three kinds of guesses: energy guidance, revelation, and signs are still not unreasonable (except whether there is energy , The three guesses are not contradictory to each other).
contact the two current occurrences of slate, the first time, the apes (our ancestors) learned to use tools, the second time, several million years later, humans evolved from apes left the earth and landed on the moon , And then it sends out interference signals. Does this confirm the process of human evolution? If you can understand this and think further, some ancient civilization that we don't know has confirmed our evolutionary process through the slate. This is a kind of surveillance. So far, we can come to this conclusion: We have been monitored.
was monitored by who and why? Let me mention
. Pool and David took the Discovery to perform the tasks assigned above. There were also 3 temporary hibernating staff and a 9000 computer HAL on the Discovery. The HAL was artificial. An intelligent machine, which has a human mind, can directly communicate with humans and control various programs of Discovery, including monitoring the life state of hibernating people. Attention,HAL is also a tool of mankind.
Only one thing to say about the journey of Discovery: Why is HAL crazy? There were a few episodes before,
HAL played chess with Poole, Poole lost, which shows three things: 1. HAL's IQ is much higher than that of humans. 2. Human beings are defeated by the tools they invented. 3. After the hint, Poole was killed by HAL.
HAL admitted to David that he was curious and worried about this mission. In fact, both David and Poole didn’t know the purpose of this mission. HAL asked him what other thoughts he had about this mission and proposed Some of my own speculations, including previous rumors on the moon.
HAL has repeatedly emphasized that it will not make mistakes, and there has been no error report, which reflects the arrogance of human beings from the side, because the computer of HAL is made by simulating the human brain.
HAL can read lip surgery, knowing that Poole and David are going to shut down themselves. Therefore, after Poole left the aircraft for the second time, HAL killed him. It can also be seen that HAL prevented David from returning to the Airplane. He was worried that he was shut down, which was tantamount to death.
HAL's madness means that it made a wrong prediction that a certain unit failed, but in fact it did not. This is contrary to the statement that it did not make a mistake. As for why he killed Poole, it was purely out of survival instinct.
Later, David learned of their mission from the video: to explore the secret of the black stone slab. In addition, the video pointed out that HAL was the only "person" on the Discovery who knew this secret.
So HAL’s error must have some connection with this secret.It knew this secret, but it had to keep it secret. Combined with his previous attempts to remind David, we can guess that it was this ambivalence that caused it to go crazy. What's interesting is that it didn't realize its mistakes and insisted on it. You can't make mistakes yourself. From the madness of HAL, we can know: 1. When the tools invented by humans make mistakes, this indirectly reflects human mistakes. 2. The conceit of HAL reflects the conceit of human beings. 3. The relationship between human beings and co-owners is not a simple relationship between use and being used. This is not so much a contest between humans and HAL, as it is a contest between humans and their own mistakes.
The most difficult part of the film should be the last part. David went through a strange journey on the Discovery and finally arrived in a room with a modern decoration style, where he quickly grew old. In the end, he becomes a baby, wandering in the universe, and the film ends.
Set aside all kinds of fantasy space scenes, pay attention to the black slate that appeared again during the journey of Discovery, and the black slate appeared in the weird room before David became a baby. As mentioned before, the Black Slate can monitor human beings. It witnesses human beings from being to nothing, from birth to death. So who is controlling this black slate? Millions of years ago, what kind of civilization existed in the universe? What is their purpose? For these questions, no clear answers are given in the movie. Therefore, the meaning of the black slate becomes more complicated. It can be a representative of all unknown things in the universe, or even the operation of the laws of the universe, including the birth, evolution and death of human beings. The whole process. This seems to explain why it appeared earlier than humans. It can also be a symbol of reincarnation. David has grown old and reborn as a baby. The whole process of reincarnation is a concrete manifestation of the continuous operation of the laws of the universe.
The above is purely personal subjective understanding
Finally,I would also like to say that is a normal reaction to feeling bored while watching a movie, don’t reject it deliberately (sometimes this is the director’s purpose) , besides, this movie has been nearly half a century ago, many The content is no longer novel to us, so don't doubt your ability to watch movies.
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