1968's 2001: A Space Odyssey shows the decline of emotion in man as we make technological improvements/ progress. The movie starts out in the beginning of the planet with primates in their natural culture. As the sun rises they discover a huge monolith in a crater. The monkeys continuously inch closer to the monolith they get more and more frightened of this unknown discovery. The chimps touch the monolith in awe and the movie immediately cuts to one of the chimps smashing a skeleton of an a
nimal with a bone. This may not seem significant but then it cuts to two sets of chimps getting into an altercation. But the difference between the two groups is that one set of monkeys is using bones as a weapon. In the end, the monkeys using weapons end up beating one of the other chimps to death (I suppose).
nimal with a bone. This may not seem significant but then it cuts to two sets of chimps getting into an altercation. But the difference between the two groups is that one set of monkeys is using bones as a weapon. In the end, the monkeys using weapons end up beating one of the other chimps to death (I suppose).The movie then jumps to the late 19th/ early 20th century and shows a man by the name of Dr. Halloway Floyd traveling to the moon. as they get to the moon they find a similar monolith than from earlier in the movie. They then find out that the monolith sends radiowaves to a monolith on Jupiter (confusing, I know). 
The movie then jumps once more to 18 months into the future on a space ship's mission to Jupiter. Along with the crew of five (2 awake, 3 in hibernation) is the ships Super-Computer HAL-9000 or Hal. Things go wrong as Hal goes rouge and murders the 3 hibernating astronauts and 1 of the men as they are outside of the ship.
Throughout this entire movie the humans hardly talk and show hardly any emotion. But, Hal shows the most emotion of anyone in the movie, and he's a computer. This shows that with technological improvement, us as humans become less emotionally involved in life.
Very nice post ernesto. I have to say though, that another reason that the humans have little emotion is because they know that emotions tend to interfere with things. Since they were on an extremely important mission, they made sure to suppress their emotions as much as possible.
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