2001: A Space Odyssey

At the dawn of man, a primitive tribe lives by hunting and gathering in a desert. The tribe discovers a black monolith, which is approached and examined. After the discovery, one of them scavenges a bone from a pile and uses it as a club, discovering the first tool. This tool is used to hunt, and eventually as a weapon to kill a member of a rival tribe.

Millions of years later, a space shuttle carries a scientist, Dr. Floyd, to a space station orbiting earth. He is headed to an excavation on the moon where moonbase engineers have discovered a monolith. After arrival, he and a team of moonbase engineers approach the monolith, which emits a sharp high-pitched sound as the sun shines on it.

Six months later, a spaceship is headed to Jupiter. Five scientists are aboard, none of whom know the purpose of their mission. The ship is controlled by an artificially intelligent supercomputer, HAL, which is treated as a sixth member of the crew by the other five. During the trip, HAL claims to detect an impending hardware failure in the ship's communications system. Two scientists, Dave Bowman and Frank Poole, replace the component, but find no fault in it. They are concerned about HAL's reliability, so they meet in secret and agree that if the component does not fail, they will disconnect HAL. HAL secretly reads their lips......

2001: A Space Odyssey





2001: A Space Odyssey／2001太空漫遊