Stanley Kubricks' 2001: A Space Odyssey is an exceptional film in both meaning and context. Kubrick found a way to convey the films' meaning that had not been seen before. By using this method, he was able to create a wealth of information, not only for the audience, but also for the film as a whole. Even though much of the movie is silent, the powerful images presented pull the audience into the action for a journey through human evolution.
             As the film begins, the audience is taken to the dawn of mankind. Apes are depicted living in the wild and their human characteristics are becoming prevalent. As the apes interact with each other, we see more and more human traits beginning to form. One important trait that is expressed is that of free will. As one group of apes are drinking at a water hole another group approaches and by a show of force they expel the group out of the water hole. What happens next is perhaps the most important cut of the whole film. The apes that had been run off from the water are now regrouped and the camera draws in on one ape in particular. He is piddling through the skeletal remains of another animal when he grabs hold of a long piece of bone, raises it, and swings it down hitting the pile of bones. In this very instant we see the point in evolution where free will begins to reign supreme. With the new knowledge the ape has gained he gathers the others and they return to the water hole they had been riled from. As the apes approach the hole the same instinctive show of force is displayed, however, what the second group doesn't know is that the others have now learned to make and use weapons. In this fight for the water hole, the ape that learned how to weaponize a bone attacks one of the other apes and kills him. This entire scene is a seemingly perfect display of the first human weapon, the first human crime, and the first human murder.
             After the opening scene Kubrick takes...