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Considered by many to be Stanley Kubrick’s magnum opus, 2001: A Space Odyssey dares to question the very essence of the human experience, contemplating the trajectory of humanity’s evolution: from the soils of Earth, to the far reaches of outer space. Developed over four distinct chapters, the story follows a mysterious object, a towering black monolith, whose appearance influences the course of humanity’s growth across millions of years. In the future, where humans hold a presence in commercial space travel and communications, a team of astronauts are tasked with finding the monolith’s origins aided by HAL 9000, the world’s most advanced supercomputer. Nominated for four Academy Awards, with Kubrick winning his only Oscar for Best Special Visual Effects, this epic exploration of the human, the machine and the unknown, formulate a boundary-pushing achievement of the cinematic form, where rich philosophical inspections and unrivalled imagery exhibit both an unnerving and optimistic anthropological examination of humanity’s very being.