Animals

When I started watching "2001, A Space Odyssey", I was not expecting to see a bunch of apes.  It seemed like Stanley Kubrick would be using the theories of evolution in comparing us humans to monkeys.  From observing the monkeys, they appeared to caricature some human-like qualities. One monkey was trying to eat something in peace.  Another monkey started to disturb his peace by nagging at him, and this monkey got mad.  Doesn't that sound like a similar situation you've been in?

The most violent part portrayed in this clip, was when one monkey started smashing an animal's fossil with this one bone in his hand.  There was such anger coming forth from the monkey in wanting to desecrate these animal bones.  In a moment, the bone, this tool of violence, was transitioned into a space shuttle.  I looked at this in a quite different perspective.  The monkey had this attitude of "I'm the king and no one can stop me".  There are people in this world who have that same attitude and become power thirsty.  They always want more.  Even if it means flying a space shuttle beyond earth's atmosphere and claiming territory on an entirely different planet.  I agree that this can represent some human beings in the world, but not everyone acts in this manner, like "animals".