And lo on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:42:03 -0000, nemesis  
<nam### [at] gmailcom> did spake, saying:

> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> The main point was to demonstrate special
>> effects. The plot was secondary. That's why they spend so long on things
>> like showing space ships coming over the horizon (first matte painting),
>> pens floating in air, jogging around the inside of a centrifuge, and so  
>> on.
>
> Cinema is a visual medium.  And 2001 excels at this, with very powerful  
> and
> poetic imagery:  the famous opening with the sun rise from space at the  
> sound
> of Richard Strauss' finest; the bone flowing into air and cutting to the  
> ship;
> or the ships ballet in space with Blue Danube...

Which I don't think anyone here would deny.

> ironically, much more impacting than most CG orgies showing these days...
>
> the plot was secondary?!  An enigmatic monolith sparking intelligence, a
> paranoid AI and a men's quest for survival going beyond the beyond  
> should be
> enough...

The point I (and I think Andrew) is making is that none of this is really  
made explicit; you yourself said that you had to read between the lines  
and thus it may be possible to come away from the film with completely the  
wrong conclusions (as per the ones I made-up) or just a state of confusion.

-- 
Phil Cook

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