Arquivo

During the Dawn of Man, a tribe of primitive humans encounters a black monolith in the desert. Thousands of years later, the discovery of another monolith on the moon leads to the launch of the Discovery One space mission to Jupiter, controlled by the HAL 9000 computer, to investigate the object’s origin. The safety of the crew is jeopardized when HAL malfunctions. Based on the short story The Sentinel, by Arthur C. Clarke, the film gave Stanley Kubrick the only Oscar of his career, for best visual effects. There they were, two secular non-religious intellectuals, a scientist-cum-writer and a skeptical agnostic filmmaker – and both take a respectful bow to the Unknowable Creator of the Universe stating that evolution is the most miraculous element in Creation.