The movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" presents itself as an allegory of society, its destructiveness, its profound cynicism. This theme is indeed central to it, but the movie constantly tends to present the revolution as a virtue rather than as an alternative to humanity's responsibilities to mankind, or society in general, as its root idea. "In the words of Stanley Kubrick himself, 'A tragic love story has a tragic purpose.' The concept of love and forgiveness in this film is deeply rooted in our cultural