Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey

Stanley Kubrick’s science fiction film, 2001: A Space Odyssey connects the past with the future in terms of life, while also having a sense of ambiguity to leave the film up to the interpretation of the viewer. In David W. Patterson’s “Music, Structure and Metaphor in Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’,” he argues that “2001’s soundtrack is comprised of two mutually exclusive harmonic streams – the atonal and the tonal – and that in their perceptive and nuanced empathy with the narrative, each ultimately develops its own metaphors to reaffirm the film’s central quest toward the confirmation of a fundamental, higher order” (470). One of the sub-points Patterson states within his well-supported article is that Kyrie from Gyorgi Ligeti’s