2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - 'The Blue Danube' (waltz) scene [1080p] There’s no certain data in what I’m about to write.
In the sense that I’ll get dates wrong, I won’t name names, and if I do, it will be because that’s how I remember them.
I saw the film in a "second showing" in 1972, but maybe even after that. A child, anyway.
I knew nothing about Kubrick, a misogynist by nature, nor did I know that Clarke was a pedophile (later declared so in Sri Lanka, as an old paralytic).
But my uncle Guido had figured that I would understand.
Because children don’t need things explained to them: remember that aviator who told a tale about a little prince?
To me, the story was understandable in the absolute indifference of human relationships: the father who "videophones" his daughter promising her, perhaps, a little monkey and then goes to take a dump taking half an hour to read the instructions on how to do it in zero gravity.
The greatest wonder of discovering the existence of a vastly superior alien race reduced to a mere "State Affair," the dialogue of the astronaut (then the only survivor) with the parents.
A ridiculous humanity, after all.
A story that speaks of incomprehensibility, of little idiotic beings who think they are sentient, in short.
Now watching it again, I know there was much more.
But anyway, when Hal 9000 goes mad, he’s irresistible!
Girogirotondoooo... Haw!
