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Certification
Sex & Nudity
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- Men seen in underwear.
Violence & Gore
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- Animal violence. Some animals are killed without any gore. A hog is also shown being killed and later being eaten.
- Some people are killed during this movie. Not graphic.
- There is a short scene in the beginning where ape-men kill another ape-man using bones.
- A wild jaguar-like animal attacks (and presumably kills) an ape-man. Shortly thereafter, the ape-men learn to kill the hog-like animals (tapirs) near them, and there are scenes of them carrying the meat around and eating it.
Profanity
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- Mild language presented. Words included are a few 'hells' (4 of them) and 'damns' (2 of them), said quickly and casually in conversation.
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- Some alcohol is consumed.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- The film itself explores many challenging, complex, and potentially scary themes.
- The last part of the film is extremely surrealistic, confusing, and even terrifying, it also have a lot of flashing lights
- The film is not intense or violent, but it will affect you more than many other movies.
- The last 30 minutes are very surreal and can be scary to younger children, as well as the whole atmosphere of the film being eerie and somewhat frightening.
- Most of the film contains mysterious, surreal, and potentially creepy atmosphere and imagery, and is often accompanied by a mysterious or even eerie score at times. The silence of space is also used to achieve similar effects.
Spoilers
Violence & Gore
- A computer system (HAL) kills people by electronically cutting off their life support during their time in hibernation.
- A man, outside of a spaceship, dies from lack of oxygen, as HAL has used a space pod's mechanical arm to cut his atmosphere tube (though this is not depicted). The computer locks another man out of the spaceship (presumably to die).
Frightening & Intense Scenes
- The film's infamous villain, the HAL 9000 series computer system, is represented as a glowing red camera "eye" and monotone voice. The unemotional and methodical manner of HAL is almost humorous at first, but becomes increasingly sinister and more unsettling as the events of the story unfold and HAL begins murdering the ship's crew.
- HAL seems to become self aware by a certain point in the film. This presents complicated and potentially upsetting thematic material that some viewers may find disturbing.
- In the end of the film, when David has gone through the Stargate, his eyes may be disturbing to some people.
- When they first discover the monolith, there is a continuous eerie music.
- There is some intensity where HAL, a computer system that has full control over a spaceship, kills 3 hibernating scientists/doctors by electronically cutting off their life supports. We also see an astronaut floating in space, supposedly after being hit by a space pod (controlled by HAL) or by that pod's robot arms tearing his air hose off its oxygen tank. We see the astronaut struggling to fix the situation, until he pulls the hose in front of his helmet and registers surprise at what has been done to his breathing air. There are also tense (but tamer) scenes involving the robot denying one astronaut entrance into the spaceship, and leaving him to die (although he does make it back into the spaceship).
- When Dave takes out HAL's circuits from the memory center, he pleads to Dave to stop. He tells Dave he can feel the pain, and "he" is afraid, etc. HAL later sings "Daisy, Daisy" in an increasingly low voice (due to slowly "shutting down"). (This is more emotional than disturbing.)
- An astronaut travels into a star gate/portal into another dimension. The following colorful visuals (alternating views of weird landscapes, strangely-colored freeze frames of his face watching the camera with different expressions, unknown cosmological phenomena,...) accompanied by a haunting music arrangement (which runs for about 10+ minutes) might be a little disturbing for some viewers.
