The monolith appears in every section of the film, but we never get a full explanation of its meaning. It's a massive, tall black rectangular object. It looks like a superbig external hard drive. W...

Screens and windows are everywhere in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Yeah, we hear you say, of course there are screens everywhere; it's a movie about space flight. True, but when we say everywhere, we mea...

No bones about it; this is an important symbol in 2001: A Space Odyssey…. Sorry about that, we couldn't help ourselves.Horrible puns aside, it's an important symbol. The bone symbolizes humanity'...

Birthdays are a recurring motif in 2001: A Space Odyssey; there's one birthday per chapter… sort of.We get word of the first birthday when Dr. Floyd calls his daughter on the video phone:SQUIRT:...