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| LinkMarioSamus 11/16/18 2:33:28 PM #369: | Snake5555555555 posted... I think HAL not having a more "exciting" defeat is deliberate. HAL is nothing more than cold machinery, a drab symbol of technologies' march, and is whatever we reflect on to it. It's defeat also illustrates that in the end, HAL and similar AIs are not the next step in human evolution and not part of our ultimate fates, we as a species will always triumph over computers. More or less agree with this. HAL isn't some dramatic villain that the crux of the story revolves around defeating. It's basically framed as another obstacle for humanity, just like the big cats in the opening scenes and the Monoliths. Though putting it that way makes it even easier for me to understand why someone wouldn't like 2001. Honestly when I watched the film earlier this year I wasn't really hooked until that leopard just leapt from off-screen and killed a primate: at that point I realized where the film was going and was pretty much hooked permanently. --- "Nothing I could do!" -Darksydephil ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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