Monday, February 4, 2008

2001: Space Odyssey

In 1968, Stanley Kubrick's classic, "2001: A Space Odyssey," it is quite easy to determine the relationship between technology and violence. One of the gorillas woke up to something out of the ordinary and started calling out to the other gorillas for them to look. In the video clip, its looks as if it is some sort of pillar in their territory. They are all surrounding it and just staring at it, looks to me like they are almost admiring the pillar.

You can look at this scene as a new form of technology that hit the streets and all of a sudden it is an uproar to the people. The constant television adds or magazine adds trying to promote this new scene of technology. Also at the end of the clip, it shows the gorilla breaking the bone structure of the animal that was left behind when it died. I look at it in a technology way of saying "Out with the Old and In with the New."

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