My Interpretation of " a Space Odyssey 2001".

The movie was too difficult to get the deep meaning of it, and I don't think the movie has a clear theme for every one. Each individual would have different point of view after watching the movie, and I found it very difficult as I have seen very few science fictions and also because the movie itself is very deep.

The movie has four parts: the dawn if man, the monolith on the Moon, the Jupiter Mission, and Jupiter Beyond the infinite. When I was watching the movie in class, I didn't think the four parts are related to each other, but now after I thought about it carefully again, I think they are all related even the first part--the apes.

As what we disscussed in class, the femur bones,  the pen and the spaceship have something in common--basically their shapes, and also, they are all tools that used by mankind. I think the movie wants to tell us something about human evolution and technology. In the first part, when the ape started to use the bone, we can see the progress of the intelligence in human evolution, and in the second part, the pen means another progress of human evolution--a progress of the civilization. However, the third part and the forth part, when I saw the spaceship, I think it was an ironic as the shape made us think of the bone and the pen in the previous parts of the movie and because this time "this shape" this time doesn't necessarily mean a progress in human evolution. We are killing ourselves as we don't pay careful attention to the development of technology. The computer HAL was able to read people's mind, and it became very dangerous at last.

In my opinion, the last part of the movie shows the limit of the power in human society. When the glass broke into pieces on the floor, it made me think that "modern technology" is still a dream, and it's impossible to make this dream come true in a very short time; if we try too hard without paying enough attention to the technology itself, we will break ourselves like the broken glass. Also, I think the fetus is another sign which tells us that we still have a lot of things to know and to discover.

I'm not sure whether my interpretation is correct or not, but I believe there is not a certain correct interpretation for this movie, and I think I will have deeper interpretation after I watch it again next time.