Comparison between Under the Glacier by Halldor laxness and the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey - Essay Example

The is earth so heavy and still, sun dawning day after day, the stone’s heart feels with the sun, it silently watches, with its divine consciousness far beyond lives and earth. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick introduces the intergalactic journey with earthly nature, across time and space, embracive and radiant: brings to mind the luminous tale of the timeless Glacier. It is beautifully slow pace, from a geometric alignment of the Moon, Earth, and Sun. From there the motionless force flows into the apes’ souls.

In a prehistoric mise-en-scéne setting, nature is activated through the dominant force of the apes yet under other forces, their vulnerability as well shivers the silence. While Kubrick pictures across three million years from the intuitive bestial primitiveness to the cold futuristic human intelligence, Laxness portrays pastor Jón Prímus at Snæfells Glacier pitying for words. “If one looks at the glacier for long enough, words cease to have any meaning on God’s earth,” says pastor Jón: only the lilies of the field if not the glacier, is worth contemplating” (page no.). In his philosophy, words, or civilization, and the Creation of the world are two incompatible things.

“History is a fable.” He dislikes the materiality of worshipping God by neglecting the church, as such sort. He also offers his long lost wife who comes back 30 years later, to the undersigned vice-bishop Embi, claiming that the woman has been and will be living in and only in his heart. Such behaviors resemble the casual yet persistent philosophy about gods of Ted Kaczynski. As he once retold in an interview that he invents gods for himself – not as intellectual beliefs but ideas that correspond with feelings – for instance Grandfather Rabbit, or “Will o’ the Wisp.

” The idea is as if some flower appears in a boundless desert where it becomes the lizards’ god for the mighty unknown, amazement, and