Year: 1968Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Screenwriter: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke
Starring: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood
Reason it fits into the Sci-Fi genre:
3/4 of the film takes place in futuristic space ships, while the plot involves a mission to Jupiter.
Reason it doesn't fit into Sci-Fi:
The scenes leading up toward the end could have been interpreted into a different genre other than sci-fi, while still maintaining the same idea and plot.
Questions:
How did you interpret the ending of the film?
Have you seen any films that made you think beyond the film itself? How?
