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Interest focused quickly on the world-renowned Ibis, which had returned to its perch on Wednesday. When dawn broke over the Cambridge skyline, as mysteriously as it had reappeared, the Ibis was gone...
...fire hose down the center aisle, but the hose broke loose from a standpipe fitting. The water spurted and under pressure knocked six people from their seats." The Globe hysterically reported that 20 persons were arrested, 30 injured. Mayor Collins was promised that there would be no more pre-dawn previews...
...herd of hairy simians chatters and skirmishes beside a water hole. It is, says the screen, "The Dawn of Man." But is it? From somewhere, a strange rectangular slab appears, gleaming in the primeval sunlight. Its appearance stimulates one of the simians to think for the first time of a bone as a weapon. Now he is man, the killer; the naked ape has arisen, and civilization is on its way. With a burst of animal spirits, the bone is flung into the air, dissolves into an elongated spacecraft, and aeons of evolution fall away. It is 2001, the epoch...
...action but only at the expense of the eerie and important continuity of technology that dominates most of the film. 2001 is, among other things, a slow-paced intricate stab at creating an aesthetic from natural and material things we have never seen before: the film's opening, "The Dawn of Man," takes place four million years ago (with a cast composed solely of australopithecine, tapirs, and a pre-historic leopard), and a quick cut takes us past the history of man into the future...
...adds considerably to the creature's strength. The discovery is executed in brilliant slow motion montage of the pre-ape destroying the skeleton with the bone, establishing Kubrick and Clarke's subjective anthropological notion that the discovery of the tool was identical to that of the weapon. The "dawn of man," then, is represented by a coupling of progress and destruction; a theme of murder runs through 2001 simultaneously with that of progress. Ultimately, Kubrick shows an ambiguous spiritual growth through physical death...