Many films follow rules. Contained within the 120 minutes, or thereabouts, is a sometimes formulaic production led by the rules pertaining to its genre. But some films deliberately flout the norm to challenge the cinematic process and explore big ideas. Whichever boundaries could be crossed, Stanley Kubrick crossed them in the 1968 epic 2001: A Space Odyssey. The project started with a letter from Kubrick to author and collaborator Arthur C Clarke, with an invitation to make the proverbial “really good” science fiction movie. It was expensive (around 3 million US$) and took years to complete, but it is still considered one of the greatest films ever made. The special effects, before computer generated imagery changed the cinematic experience, are phenomenal, and contribute to an experimental approach to structure, storyline, and timeline, where a disjointed sequence of images leave the audience to interpret and analyse with subjective curiosity. So is the end result rigmarole or is it genius?

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谁控制着人工智能，我们可以信任它们吗？

许多电影都遵循规则。在120分钟左右（或左右）内，有时会出现由与流派有关的规则主导的公式化制作。但是有些电影故意违背规范来挑战电影过程并探索大创意。无论可以跨越哪个边界，史丹利·库布里克（Stanley Kubrick）都在1968年史诗般的《2001：太空漫游》中越过了边界。该项目以库布里克致作者兼合作者亚瑟·克拉克的一封信开始，并邀请他制作这部众所周知的“非常好”的科幻电影。它很昂贵（大约三百万美元），花了数年的时间才能完成，但它仍然被认为是有史以来最伟大的电影之一。在计算机生成的图像改变电影体验之前，这些特殊效果是非凡的，并且有助于结构，故事情节和时间线的实验方法，其中分离的图像序列使观众能够凭主观的好奇心进行解释和分析。那么最终结果是千篇一律还是天才呢？