The film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick, follows a voyage by astronauts, scientists and the sentient supercomputer HAL 9000 to Jupiter to investigate an alien monolith. The movie itself is about transformation. The beginning of the film starts off with what is called the “Dawn of Man”. During this scene, it shows the evolution of the apes, and then dives into the future of humanity. The movie later on transitions into an advanced space technology. The effects and rapid movements displayed shows that the setting is techologically advancing. The first depiction of technology begins when the apes struggle to survive in the harsh prehistoric landscape, which was in the Dawn of Man sequence. One of the apes were inspired by the mysterious black monolith and picks up a bone, realizing that the bone can be used as a weapon. This is the most fundamental statement on technology because it is an extension of intelligence, a mean of control and ultimately a tool of power. The bone, which was originally used to smash other bones out of curiosity, quickly became a weapon of dominance, allowing the apes to take control of a water hole from a rival group. The setting of outer space correlates with the stage of evolution in this scene. The connection of both the spacecraft and the bone shows that space travel and technology is like using the bone as a tool. Kubrick’s match cut from the spinning bone to a futuristic spacecraft billions of years later suggests that all human technological progress is a part of a continuous tragectory: implying that the same instincts that drove early humans to wield weapons still drive humanity’s techological ambitions. Overall, I think the movie was interesting to watch. It’s visually stunning and had advanced filmmaking at the time it was made. The ending took me by surprise.