What was the deal with the monolith?

What went wrong?

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Everything

Aliens gave us Hitler and we spurned the gift.

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theory 1:
a physical representation of evolution itself. each time hominids come into contact with the monolith they seem to experience a cognitive leap.
theory 2:
it's an alien tool which enables the users to vastly increase intelligence.
theory 3:
it's an extremely abstract form of a highly evolved extraterrestrial being which phases in and out of existence to where and when it sees fit.
more thematic stuff:
it's a vagina and coming into contact with it produces the strongest orgasm produced.

it represents technology, more specifically television, which is the image of the beast, transforming humanity a little more every day until they are prepared for the great unveiling

the 2016 election in usa and the confidence that it provided to the utmost toxic community

>the 2016 election in usa
Our finest moment, oh and blow it out your ass. eurocuck.

there's the nerd factual answer out of the garbage book and the kino symbolic answer only for high IQ connoisseurs

im australian
>our
absolutely bluepilled

It represented Satan.

You can just read the book, you know

i like the ambiguous nature of the film but i like what arthur c. clarke proposes

>In 2010, Lucifer is created by the monoliths in order to encourage evolution on Jupiter’s moon Europa. The monoliths compress gasses in the Jovian atmosphere, making nuclear fusion possible, so as to convert Jupiter into a new Sun in our Solar System.

>im australian

Same thing.

i appreciate that

There is no one concrete interpretation of it that makes more sense than all the others. It is a depiction of sublime power, spine-tingling awe. The closest I have ever seen to something mystically and awe-inspiringly superhuman depicted in cinema.

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Didn't the book come out after the movie? I know Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke worked close with NASA to help produce the movie.

The book is a much inferior work of art to the movie and, for that reason, I prefer to consider the book and the movie two completely separate artistic universes. I ignore the book when considering the movie.

Some boomer meme.

Its a catalyst for evolution
Everytime life discovers one they evolve to the next stage of enlightenment

All other answers are wrong

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so how did humans evolve finding the one on the moon? They just got some signal pointing to jupiter

my God plz be bait

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so no answer...
I guess I'll give you time to search for it

>big black thing
>appears in africa
real subtle there stanley

it's a film screen
t. teen ager

I don't even know where to begin with you. I don't think you understand the meaning of the terms metaphors, allegory and are able to analyze movies on a level deeper than the plot you see on screen. Gl on your Kino journey. I'm out.

to be fair 2010: The Year We Make Contact wasn't a snoozefest.

Yes, but it was written by Clarke, who also co-wrote the movie. It gives more context to what happens in the movie. If you read the book, you will see that the progression of humans is to evolve into pure energy--if I remember the book correctly. You wouldn't get that from watching the movie. When you watch the movie you see Bowman reborn, but it's not clear why or what he's supposed to be.

It represents Saturn. Saturn is Satan, and Satan is Lucifer, and Lucifer is sometimes regarded as a bringer of knowledge. Lucifer means light bringer, like the morningstar. The sumerians, the ancient americans, they talk about blue eyed people coming from somewhere and enlightening them about math, science, agriculture, etc. Basically the same thing the black monolith does in 2001.
The black cube is a symbol of Saturn, can be found all over the world, and in media. It's the 3d representation of the black hexagon on Saturn's northern pole. The same hexagon I'm willing to bet is behind the hexagon on the "Star of David" which is really the seal of solomon, a symbol that the Islamic scribes say was used to summon or communicate with demonic beings.
Islam has no right to talk shit on jews though because they literally circle a giant black cube in the same direction as the rings of Saturn. Seriously, watch a time lapse of the muslims.
youtube.com/watch?v=KGukAoiGhZU

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oh you even ran out of meme images to try using as an argument

Wtf where are the frogs and Twitter screencaps and box office numbers

it represent a hard drive. with many informations on it from the future

Book Explanation: Boring as shit. It’s a super advanced database + AI construct. The books, especially the sequels to 2001, are very interested in this.
Movie Explanation: It’s God. Yeah they’re aliens, the above explanation still works, but it doesn’t matter, the movie’s about our relationship with the Infinite.

Up your butt and around the corner lol

>at the Infinite
Which is what? The Afterlife?

That's because this isn't a movie where zoomers can just go apeshit for capeshit user

Are you saying the space baby was supposed to be a being of pure energy? It had a physical body...

lmao fuckin gotem

i assume he means the mechanics and scope of the universe and not just within the material realm of possibilities but the idea that qualia is from it's own distinct form of rules due to subjective interpretation arising from human consciousness.

you're gay haha

It was an allegory to mankind achieving spiritual enlightenment via a thick black erection

It was a Big Black Chip of some alien material.

It's unironically supposed to be the screen you're watching the film on.

that's retarded

okay Rob

The monolith spurred human cognitive evolution by doing one simple task. It showed them the difference between "made" and "unmade." It's the difference between "natural" and "unnatural." By showing the primates the difference and imparting this small and ubiquitous distinction, the primates were able to grasp the concept of technology.

why is it vertical then?

Dr. Strangelove is one of my top 10 favorite flicks. It's so funny.

Oh, and I forgot. It's meant to stand out against the "natural" environment. Where there's something "made" there must also be a maker. It was meant to contrast sharply with the natural world by being so unnatural.

So the natural world has no 'maker'?

Indeed. It was meant to contrast with all they had known before and to impart that concept of "making."

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I don't understand why but this song from the soundtrack has always been my favorite. Is it the violin? Is it when it's being played during the mission to Jupiter that exudes a sense of melancholy and loneliness? I want to talk to someone about it lmao

t. fag

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>Practically miraculous machine intelligence, capable of advancing biological evolution / stimulating intelligence.
>Probably a wormhole generator.
>Can mass self-replicate when needed
>Can store consciousness in digital form.
>'Boring'.

In biblical astrology Lucifer is associated with Venus, not Saturn.

For millennial phone watchers, duh.

Forgot to put:
>Created by super-advanced aliens who have now ascended, leaving the monoliths behind

The answer you looking for is in HAL

Jesus is Venus. The first and the last star -- alpha and omega.

It has the wrong dimensions to be that, no film screen has a ratio of dimensions that is each dimension squared all the way up to the highest dimensions of string theory.

The fuck you talking about?
Venus is a planet, not a star, and its the second planet, not the first or the last.

As far as biblical metaphor is concerned, there are two types of stars. The fixed stars, and the wandering stars, which we understand to be planets.
Venus is the Bright Star of the Morning and Evening.

>he cant explain the film

You are so pathetic

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i haven't seen one of those in forever!
PLEASE tell me what these are called, user. I can't remember.

Why was the first 10 minutes of this about africa?

We thank you, oh Monolith, for revealing the cunning plans of your enemies to us.
May your light shine down on the souls of the brave soldiers who gave their lives in service to your will.
Onward warriors of the Monolith, avenge your fallen brothers, blessed as they are in their eternal union with the Monolith.
Bring death to those who spurned the holy power of the Monolith
Oh Monolith, we do not hear you, why have you left us, oh Monolith? We await your orders, oh Monolith

You figured out how to get dubs, I think you can figure out how to use that triangle by the post number to do an image search.

Lucifer is literally the Roman name for Venus.

yeah i felt bad immediately after posting that.

Nope, the monolith in the movie is 2:20, TODD AO format, which 2001 is shot on. It's literally a screen.

The monoliths are 3D protrusions of 4 (or more) dimensional entities that seek life in our universe. They manipulate life when they find it, for whatever reason (can you know their reason?) and set them up in staged processes to see if life will evolve to their liking. Humans were set by the first one to one day find the one on the moon. There was a very real possibility we'd never go to the moon or develop technology to detect it. But we did. So it contacted the one orbiting Jupiter, another bread-crumb for us humans to follow.

Once Dave got to it, he "entered" it which caused him to travel beyond out 3D universe. Outside of space and time he was watched, cared for and manipulated, by these entities (you can actually see them in his psychedelic trip scene, they're the glowing/pulsating cubes). Upon completion of the study, he died. As he would have died. And feeling for him, they gave him the next step in evolution. Which for some reason is a giant baby floating in space. He was reborn, recreated, as a small gift for him making it all the way to Jupiter, and then being a guinea-pig for however long his linear life ran out.

90posts none tell the title....

Fun fact: Venus is currently visible in the very early morning until June 19th and won't be visible again until the evening in October 10th through December 31st of this year.

Minority Report starring Tom Cruise and directed by Steven Spielberg.

solaris by tartovsky

It's the wish-granting machine.
Venus is already the Roman name for Aphrodite.

Kubrick and Dick literally explained it all in interviews. It's aliens guiding humanity through evolution.

>Lucifer (/ˈluːsJfər/ LEW-si-fər; "light-bringer") is a Latin name for the planet Venus as the morning star in the ancient Roman era, and is often used for mythological and religious figures associated with the planet.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer

back to capeshit

What’s the deal with the monolith? It’s not the only one and it’s not made of stone!

damn that’s some mad projection

I got to see this in IMAX last year. Was pretty amazing.

Sounds like it

>Sacred geometry
Basically apes conceptualized perfect right angles and flipped the fuck out. Early civilization was obsessed with it, attributed it to God(s) etc.

aliens handing out free evolution tickets as a prank

>people acting like this is an ancient post
>it's only 2012
>that was only like last ye-
>remember it's 2019

oh dear god my life

Actually, I think you'll find that since Mecca sits roughly on the tropic of Capricorn the people rotating around it will be doing so in a direction roughly perpendicular to the rotation of Saturn's rings.

It's symbolic, it represents knowledge.
Listen to this youtube.com/watch?v=HoQn11DJ0LA
It details many of the movie's scenes and how Kubrick was pretty clever at esoteric symbolism.

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Is there no dialogue in the film to say it's 1:4:9?

>Pay no attention to Earth Lo, we purposely evolved them wrong... as a joke.

Don't listen to some dipshit who thinks any film aspect ratio ever standardized at ten times wider than tall.

Once upon a time I was a pleb that fell asleep while the monkeys were still howling.
But holy shit I wasn't as dumb and tasteless as your ass.

You're a brainlet if you think there is one singular answer that you should "get".

The monolith is supposed to be ambiguous and unfathomable to us just like it is to the characters in the film.

Unaided space travel was at least part of the gifts Dave got with his leap in evolution, because the Monoliths thought he'd earned it when he had to break back into the ship when HAL had locked him out.
Because he had traveled through the void with no protection, he was now able to travel through the void with no protection.

Except it's not.
There's plenty we can understand about them, even if it isn't much of what you'd call the whole.

It's more like 1:4:9:Infinite.

that's fucking deep tho

Based STALKER-poster

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because when angled in that manner, it is a capped pyramid
the black portion in your pic represents the previous base layer from which a paradigm shift will occur
the "light" appearing on top represents the emerging of tool usage among humanoids
above that you see the moon, which is where tool usage will take them

so you see the origin, the event, and the target encoded in one image

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another hint is the usage of the song "also sprach zarathustra"
and what did he say?
>"Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman--a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what is lovable in man is that he is an OVER-GOING and a DOWN-GOING."
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>Read the book
Cringe. If you knew anything about the film/book's production history you KNOW Kubrick had the right idea and intentionally left it ambiguous.

You can't disprove Ager's theory, although he has misunderstood his fundamental quote from Kubrick regarding the monolith

>There's plenty we can understand about them, even if it isn't much of what you'd call the whole
Like what?

It has infinite meaning and it has no meaning.

well, it IS full of stars

This is the correct answer. Kubrick explicitly made the film ambiguous. He wanted to get an emotional or spiritual response of any kind from the viewer and more so to get them to believe what they think they are seeing. It's fundamentally about the ambiguous abstract incomprehensible emotional spiritual belief that the infinite represents to any one individual that chooses to believe. If you can't work it out for yourself, you don't get the film.

Jesus is the son of God... man some of y'all is whack

It predicted the future but got it wrong by a few years...

How often do you find perfect right angles in nature. I think I'd flip the fuck out too

youtube.com/watch?v=K5uf9JV-jEU

It's a gift
It gave humanity the first tool, which it used for murder

Solaris The Tyrant Sun by Soderbergh

It's a phone

The first flatscreen.