2001: a space odyssey (1968)

2001: A Space Odyssey was on TCM yesterday and I decided to re-watch it. What always moves me about this film is how quiet it is and how piercingly evocative all sounds therefore become. The humming of machines intermingled with human breathing is just one such example that lends depth to the images of technological functioning and human struggle. I still have no idea what happens during the last 30 minutes of it, but that doesn't matter. The whole thing is extremely close to tipping over into evolutionary mumbo-jumbo, but Kubrick never steps over that line. Thankfully.