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His parents wish him a happy birthday. They talk about the dog. They mention their friends, the Millers. It is painfully mundane. Frank watches this with the emotional affect of a man reading a microwave manual. He smiles mechanically, then turns off the screen to go back to his exercise.

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There are no lovers. There is no flirtation. There is not even a functional handshake between a man and a woman that doesn't feel like an alien autopsy. For a film set in a future where we have mastered artificial gravity and hibernation, 2001 delivers the most terrifying dystopia of all: a future where romance is obsolete. His parents wish him a happy birthday

In Arthur C. Clarke's novel (written concurrently with the film), there is a brief romantic subplot that Kubrick : It is painfully mundane

True to its title's nod to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey , the film used a futuristic, "odyssey-like" framing to present these clips as a journey through the evolution of human sexual expression on screen. Distinguishing Television from Internet "Shock"