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2001: A Space Odyssey
Sometimes the healthiest thing you can do is feel small. Awe shrinks your problems back down to size. 🌌
Who it's for
2001 is less a story than an experience of scale, silence and awe.
Restless→Awe / Wonder
Feelings it meets
What it is
2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 science-fiction film directed by Stanley Kubrick, who co-wrote it with Arthur C. Clarke. It opens with prehistoric hominids encountering a mysterious black monolith, then jumps millions of years ahead as Dr. Heywood Floyd investigates a similar monolith found buried on the Moon.
Where to find it
Rent or buy on major digital stores (Apple TV, Prime Video, Google TV/YouTube). 4K restorations exist. Streaming rotates, so check JustWatch.
Before you start
Heads up: An AI kills crew members; flashing lights.
Age: G (Common Sense: 12+)
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.Henry David Thoreau, Walden, “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For”
