A cinema odyssey

So Saturday night I was doing the late night ushering shift, fortunately we had a showing of 2001 after everything else ahd finished - meaning I could sit in and watch while getting paid bonus late rate. It was on the largest screen and watching as such made me feel like I'd not seen it before. The true cinematography of it, the careful composition of the shots, the spectacular set design, all the detail which is so good it looks effortless, just came to life. The special effects were achieved using some real innovation, a truly creative lateral thinker Kubrick, he uses rooms that can rotate upside down to achieve the effect of no gravity, I laughed at his idea of the future though, where we had a Hilton in low-orbit, still with lipstick ladies serving 50's gentlemen scotch and America is still fighting the Russians. I enjoyed how he used natural sound and big orchestral pieces in contrast from scene to scene; There would be long scenes of quiet followed by 30 men singing rising notes of dischord. The plot made little sense, but it was still a beauty to behold.