Slashdot | Kubrick’s 2001: A Triple Allegory
“…There are times when you read a book and think the author has it dead wrong. Then are times when you suspect he is right, and that thought scares gives you the cold shakes. Wheat’s analysis of 2001 is exactly like that. No, this is not another whiney look at the sad differences between Kubrick’s vision of what this year would be like and the McDonald’s sponsored nightmare of reality television, boy bands and public disinterest in science that we ended up with. This is much crazier than that. Leonard Wheat examines 2001 from the perspective of three different allegories: the Odysseus myth, man-machine symbiosis and the Nietzschean Zarathustra legend…”