This film has much to be debated about. Surely, everybody would acknowledge the fact that for such a film to be released as early as 1968 and to achieve the visual and technical brilliance that it has is surely all due to the credits that director Stanley Kubrik deserves. The film is based on a mind bending travel into space and an exploration of the unknown and in no other film has science fiction been treated as it has been in this revolutionary experimental film.

If you have not seen it yet, you should know that this long film has less than forty minutes of dialogue and the first word that is spoken by any actor in the film is after a good initial thirty minutes of the film already having passed. So what is it that makes up the film you ask? Very simply, the visual effects. Kubrik’s experimentation lies exactly there that most of the film’s effects are created by the use of the vast expanses of space and the grandeur of the unknown or rather the imagination. Audiences are meant to be in awe of the film’s visuals and the achievements it made in that department considering the fact that it was 1968, minus all the digital technology that we now have. For most people, the film feels too long winding and boring and that is how it was initially received as well by critics. But it is in recent years that film scholars and critics have been able to discover the actual art and meaning behind this long masterpiece of a science fiction film.