nick007 wrote:
2001 A Space Odyssey. It had no plot. It was just a bunch of short random mostly really boring clips that seemingly had nothing to do with anything.
OK, I just have to respond. The idea of the movie is that we are an intermediate species, and that aliens who are so far advanced from us to not be understandable to us, are waiting to force us through an "evolution" so we can understand them.
They leave the monolith for the ape-men so they will be inspired to use tools.
They buried the other monolith on the moon to signal them that we had reached a stage of space voyages.
The end of the movie is the aliens "forcing" the astronaut through an "evolution" to be like them.
Got it? Good ! !
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