The movie starts out at the dawn-of-mankind, where a bunch of monkeys
are fighting and one finally comes up with the brilliant idea to use a
blunt instrument to club another to death. What an amazing and
innovative idea! Then we fast forward to the space age where a space
station's onboard computer, the HAL 9000, decides how it doesn't want
to take orders from the crew anymore. Man no longer controls the
technology he created but that technology now has complete control
over his life. You know, the life-support systems and all. My how
far we've come since the invention of the aforementioned blunt
bludgeoning instrument. It's a definite bummer dude, but a cool
concept never-the-less. |