Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey

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2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 movie by Stanley Kubrick based on Arthur Clarke's short story The Sentinel. The story and the movie discuss many themes, but the most important one would be the theme of evolution of mankind; it is important because one can see how the actor/author focused on it more than any other theme.
The movie opens up with a tribe of apes, (and as it is believed by many, apes are humans' ancestors.) The theme of evolution starts being discussed or viewed in the movie when suddenly a large black object or a "pillar" that gives whoever touches it the ability to evolve appears to these apes, and one of them, Moon-Watcher, touches it; the next day Moon-Watcher develops a new way to use things or tools. He uses the bones of