Was the Sky Father an Ancient Astronaut?

A film review of 2001: A Space Odyssey

This is a joke title to draw you into a film review. Priding myself on always getting you the best reviews of the latest zogslop, I have decided to watch the 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Giving up on space exploration was the biggest misstep of the US empire. If we cannot move beyond the earth, the story is over. With that in mind, I’ve been on a bit of a sci-fi kick lately. Rewatching Interstellar made me want to look into new space movies, so I decided to check out 2001. There were some vague memories of it being a good movie that was advertised in my youth with the emergence of HD and Blu-ray.

I HIGHLY recommend you watch the movie first, then read this review for the most “magic.”

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The immediate problem going into a movie made in 1968 is the pacing. Keep in mind, it was also made BEFORE we landed on the moon and didn’t know what the earth looked like from above. Much of it was done on purpose, but in the age of high action and superhero movies, it moves EXTREMELY slow, but if you like classical musix sit down and enjoy(Caribbean Rhythms intro music makes appearance in movie). The case in point is the introduction to the movie which spans about twenty or so minutes. During this time, you will be saying to yourself, “I thought this was a fucking space movie.” Likewise, the end of the movie may elicit a response like, “What the fuck just happened.” 2001 is split up into four parts, though most wtf just happened videos I watched on YouTubes say there are three.

The first part is the introduction which is you watching apes for twenty minutes until, FINALLY, one of them realizes it can use bone to bash brains. I wasn’t sure I had the right movie playing honestly, until black monolith appears on mountainside where the apes sleep. Maybe the, “Was the Sky Father an Ancient Astronaut?,” wasn’t a joke title after all, amirite? Once these apes touch monolith, something clicks in brain and they become the first iterations of MEN. Before they were being eaten by panthers, bullied by stronger ape tribe, but after touching monolift, they DOMINATED.

This domination culminated in ape throwing his bone in the air and it transforms into nuclear satellite hovering over the Earth. This is where I thought movie began, but this first part is relevant to the movie as a whole so pay attention. There are many different interpretations to be found in youtubes, I encourage you to check it out after watching the movie. Also look into the book, which was written at the same time. While it is different from the movie, it does explain things the movie does not(I have not read it yet, so cannot confirm). The second part is sort of a homage to what space travel will be like. Very much still consumeristic, but without the large amounts of foreigners overcrowding everything. You see them teasing new technologies like video calls and ipads.

Something is going on, however. Stanley Kubrick directed the movie and he doesn’t spell anything out for you. The character you follow is named Haywood Floyd. He meets up with some Russians while waiting for his flight to the moon and they ask him what is going on at the moon base as there is rumor of some form of Covid going around, which he can’t talk about. After he leaves, they all start talking Russian(Cold War still going on, other languages should be banned btw). Once he gets to the moon, he holds a briefing, but you still don’t know what’s going on. The scene then changes to Floyd being taken to what is called an anomaly that was discovered underneath the moon’s surface.

What they found was kept a hushed secret. Maybe five people on Earth and a few on the moon base knew about its discovery. What they found was evidence of extraterrestrial life and lo, what was it they found in the ground? The MONOLITH. As they study it, the sun hits the monolith causing a noise to emit from it. That noise, it is explained was a signal to Jupiter. End part two. Most youtubes combine this with what is the next part.

I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.

Part three is when it starts to get real. Eighteen months later, a ship called the Discovery is on a mission to Jupiter. There is a five-man crew, six, if you count the onboard AI computer called HAL 9000. This part of the movie feels rushed. From what I understand, the book fleshes it out more. Three crew members are in cryo-sleep while the other two maintain the ship with HAL and it goes from zero to one hundred fast.

The two astronauts, Dave and Frank seem to distrust HAL, but it’s not explained why. They have also been kept in the dark about the mission, to be briefed by the other three sleeping astronauts when they arrive. HAL reports a malfunction on the ship, which they have to fix if they want to maintain communication with Earth. Dave goes out there to replace the part only to discover that it is functioning properly. HAL suggests putting it back in place and waiting to see if it goes out in the predicted two days. There are a lot of subtle tips to what is going on that you must pay attention to, but these tips are not thrown at you like they would be in a modern movie.

What’s the deal with HAL is very much debated on youtubes and HAL itself is iconic in cinema, but he is also seemingly a side quest to everything else that is going on. There is an intermission about two-thirds through the movie. There is “secret” talk between Frank and Dave about disabling HAL if there are any more malfunctions. Frank goes out into space next to put the part back. This time around, however, HAL commandeers the pod and uses it to ram into Frank whose oxygen gets disconnected as he’s thrown out into the vacuum of space.

Dave takes out the second pod to save him but forgets his helmet. After retrieving the body, HAL refuses to let Dave back into the ship. This leads to powerful scene where Dave forces his way back into the ship and deals with HAL. After disabling the AI, Dave sees a message from Floyd that explains why they were going to Jupiter. The monolith sent signal to Jupiter where they expect to encounter extraterrestrial life. Dave completes the mission and gets to Jupiter. Out floating in space is yet another MONOLITH.

Dave takes a pod to investigate the monolith. This time, however, the monolith acts as some sort of portal or black hole. Dave is pulled through and you are presented with crazy light show. This part of the movie was apparently made for those of you who enjoy tripping on acid. The pod lands in some sort of white room where we get to watch Dave age quickly. In the last scene, the monolith returns and old Dave reaches out for it and is TRANSFORMED into what youtubes called the Star Child. Yes, a massive baby with a lazy eye then floats over the earth. BD at this point was saying “What the fuck.”

All right, for real, was the Sky Father an Ancient Astronaut?

2001: A Space Odyssey has the ancient astronaut trope about how aliens guide the development of mankind until they are ready to take the next step and enter the interstellar communiTAE. This is a terrible storyline that could only be written by leftists who have the same attitude towards their own existence. They are the enlightened ones waiting for all the racists and Nazis to die off so they can ascend to their “perfect” society. One of the biggest problems — which will ironically destroy the worlds of so many scientists brought up in the leftist mindset — is WHY would some alien race do this? There is the idea that aliens don’t make contact because they are allegedly afraid of our nuclear warheads. If they traveled to Earth from almost any distance, their technology is already far beyond nukes. No, they aren’t afraid of mankind’s barbarism.

WHY would they aid mankind? One way Interstellar got around this was in Cooper’s realization that aliens weren’t trying to help them — it was whatever men evolved into from the distant future, making sure the timeline for them ran smoothly. There is a WAY in nature and that way in no way involves some superior force helping and guiding an inferior one. Aliens who came across mankind would seek enslavement or conquest. It’s what we would do if we were in their shoes(cue the horrifying shrills of leftists). It’s wild how are greatest thinkers of our time have this complete gap in understanding nature.

So the first question you have to answer in the ancient astronaut theory is WHY an alien would guide the development of mankind. Maybe we are science experiment? Maybe the earth is a zoo for extraterrestrials? Could be future man making sure our species make it to the next level. In all likelihood, it’s Tyler Durden’s assertion that God hates us. We are his unwanted children. He left Earth long ago.

Now, that is a blaqpill view. You don’t want to see your children fail. You want to see them live up to and exceed the expectations you had for them. Hell, you would do everything in your power to make sure it happens. But much gets lost in translation. Your children might not hear what you are trying to tell them. They naturally might rebel against your authority.

Perhaps, the same happened with our creator. He had a goal set for man, but we failed to live up to it or rebelled against His way. Maybe He is waiting for man to rediscover the Golden Path and when he does, God will bestow upon them fortune again. One thing is certain, however, we must set our eyes on the stars again. We must fix our goal. Our religion must also match this goal.

Onwards and upwards.