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A mysterious monolith appears among prehistoric hominids, then later beneath the lunar surface. Its signal points toward Jupiter, where astronauts Dave Bowman and Frank Poole travel aboard Discovery One under the supervision of the intelligent computer HAL 9000.

Match cuts across millennia, rotating sets, miniature spacecraft, classical music, long silence, slit-scan imagery, and HAL's red eye let scale and technology speak before dialogue—the film preserves awe by refusing explanatory closure.