As an epileptic.... the first few minutes of this video is pretty close to what I see, eyes closed or not. I have no feelings or control of my body, but my mind or 3rd eye, goes into this visual tunnel. At the same time, there is an overwhelming amount of thoughts, feelings and information come to me, it is like knowing everything in a split second. It is hard to deal with, yet if you breath through it and not panic, there is a beautiful enlightenment during it. I was 11 years old when I saw this film in the 70's, I didn't understand it, but as an artist, it is one that I place above any other film.
The first monolith granted the apes reason and logic. This monolith seeks to show the humans what lies beyond reason and logic. (The universe does not exist for a logical reason.)
Funnily enough, the sequence actually relates to being trapped in virtual reality after they say you can get to Mars through it (Metallica - Meta: The Killer - Through The Never - Off to Never, Neverland ('A Place We Made Up') - Enter Sandman (Convert Humans To Brain Chip - Dave Merges with Machine, Wendy in The Shining. Wendy in Peter Pan (Neverland), Ready Player One featuring The Shining)
A Masterpiece. A Flawless Film, and as little as I liked Stanley Kubrick as a person, this is still the Greatest Sci-Fi Flick of All Time. #1, because it is timeless and holds up so well.
I saw this movie in a theater 56 years ago. It is still the best science fiction movie I've ever seen. Kubrick was a cinematic genius....remember, he did this with absolutely no CGI.
"The vegetative universe opens like a flower from the earth's centre, In which is eternity. It expands in stars to the mundane shell. And there it meets Eternity again, both within and without." -William Blake (In Blake's mythology man is the true earth.)
The ability to capture timelessness versus being trapped in physical time (spans of billions of years versus our meager 80-120 year span) is quite impressive..😚😚😚
