2001 A Space Odyssey - ending 

man never landed on the moon! lol

@@oraclesoftheawakening6041 Jesus Christ.

@@andrewmccloud8581 I'm PRETTY SURE he was never on the moon!! riddle me this- how in the actual fuck did Nixon speak to the Apollo astro-nots on a frigging White House Rotary Phone, in 1969?? 230,000 miles away lmao what's even funnier is how this object of supposed dust and rock can reflect enough sunlight to light up like a Christmas tree!!

@@oraclesoftheawakening6041 Nixon spoke to the astronauts the same way everyone speaks to astronauts, radio. Did you really think people were supposed to believe he was calling them on a landline to the moon? What the hell?

@@hockeymass2386 it blows my mind in this day and age with all the info nasa caught lying time and time again how anyone who spends 5 mins DOING A HALF ASS RESEARCH could still think that 8 years after sending the first man in space nasa was able to send 3 astro-nots to the moon! It's card programming it's like religion u been hearing the narrative your entire life, probably had no reason to question that narrative well, im challenging you Watch a few RU-vid vids open your mind

Relatable

idc

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Yes. That’s exactly what he goes through-and passes.

Accurate

😂😂😂Poor Bowman First Hal denied later the Monolith

Vincent Falcone if I were on LSD, i would figure out the ending

commodore256 I remember talking to a man who said he tripped with his friends back in the 70s on LSD and none of them could figure it out.

Whoa, man....

Space Oddity x100000 would be the result

Saw the film last week (for the 50th Anniversary) in cinema, and I took mushrooms about an hour and half before as well as some inbetween the film. Honesty, an experience unlike any other! Probably the highlight of my year so far

Rare Fire Type Lenny 3467😅

it's a lot of moaning presumably and the door

yes

Not gonna lie, this is kinda creepy.

I'm sorry. I can't do that, Dave

be a wiseass if you want but basically yes, its about evolution past and future

Just gave the 200. like to this observation.

Isn't that how it always goes?

It's all possible. I want to know about the "Monolith" buzz aldrin is talking about, and why a monolith keeps appearing in a different city all over the world each day. How could they move it around so fast?

@Salonardes I don't take it seriously, I wonder what it means. The monolith is just a metaphor for something else man. Why do you think the movie was created? There is a lesson in it.

***** LOL! Me too.

Takes a while to sink in, no one can deny that

The plot is pretty straightforward but what's completely abstract is the ideas behind it. The primary reason 2001 is because of its philosophical ambitions. I've interpreted the film as a metaphor for Nietzsche's theory about man's transition from wild apes to civilized creatures. He can no longer search for morality in his some god he invented, man must become his own god. Now I don't expect everyone to look at it this way but this is just my interpretation. And that's the beauty of this film. Everyone sees it differently.

Nameless Paladin Maybe Kubrick wanted everybody to interpret it his own way.

strikeout1991 True. Same is true for most of Kubrick films.

this comment section proves just that

Nah

Light years measures distances, though, not time...

He had the help of real scientists and the scientific community. The ending is kind of weird but most of it makes sense if you know the background.

David Gray yep

Interesting.

Okay boomer

Sterling Archer stfu. I think the meme is funny, but you don’t have to be a boomer to enjoy 2001 a Space Odyssey, it’s arguably the greatest movie of all time.

@@aidani4633 It is definitely the greatest film ever made.

@@sterlingarcher3729 can you do yourself and everyone a favor by shutting tf up.

Sadly, someone never asked for a movie that was remade.

Acete Gaming You don’t understand, of course it could be remade, but it wouldn’t be as good. Better CGI means nothing when the practical effects of the original film is already great. Look at the fucking Robocop remake lol. And you’re bitching about “no action” in a movie that literally isn’t meant for action lol. The one action scene in the movie is very unique because of its eerie lack of sound during the whole thing, the silence of space taking over as HAL tries to kill the astronauts. What do you want, a dude running around with a laser gun shooting at HAL? Lol get out of here

@Acete Gaming they have no reason to remake it cause it's so good of a film

@Acete Gaming You are an imbecile.

SPACE ODYSSEY: SNYDER CUT

RueAvenger I also watched this in a film class an I just started laughing out of complete and utter confusion in front of the whole class the only other one laughing was the teacher

@@williamrieck2138 William Rieck got unnerved

I watched it in a astronomy class

I watched this in my human sexuality course.

I watched this in PE

Well said

For me the whole thing is metaphorical for the evolution of humanity. As we know, every time the monolith is shown a new stage in human evolution occurs, weather it be the use of tools or The creation of HAL 9000. And everytime we use thoes tools, they harm people. In the dawn of man, the bone was used to kill an early human, and in 2001, Hal kills the crew of discovery 1. So as Dave is in the bedroom and is becoming older and weaker, its symbolizes how humanity gets more and more deadly to other people as it progress, and weakens its self. Then, the final monolith appears, and Dave turns into the star child, the first human to transcend past the harmful stage of evolution, and since a monolith was shown, the rest of humanity will also go and become more evolved. In all, the ending sequance is a metaphor for evolution of humanity, and to truely evolve is to stop harming other humans and revert back to a peace like state, just like the dawn of man.

One thing I noticed was when Dave was going through that LSD induced wormhole or whatever a lot of the imagery looked like the African landscape from the beginning. Is that implying that the Extra Terrestrials were watching or influenced the Dawn of Man the entire time? (well I guess we already knew that since we do know they gave the human ancestors a monolith).

The way I saw it was this: Dave saw all the secrets of the universe and it was too much for his human mind to comprehend. This was necessary for the aliens to get him to where his soul could transcend to their plane of existence, where he essentially accepted his consciousness “leaving” its body and allowing himself to be reborn into a being of pure energy rather than flesh. He probably became “one of them” in the sense that the aliens are beings of energy, not physical mass, and thus could be used to encourage the rest of mankind to also “evolve” so to speak.

Oh I get it

Monolith represent evolution, Bowman had reached its peak but it still had a weakness, humans die, so he becomes light, as energy he becomes immortal.

The Monolith represents God. We, as humans, can not know what God looks like so Kubrick shows him as a dimensionally perfect being (1x4x9, the squares of the first three integers). Man can't play God, and create life (HAL). Only God may create life and Dave evolves into God, with the guidance of God. Every pixel on every screen of every scene of this movie is symbolic of something. Those who just watch this movie make me sad...

The monolith is a dimensional transport device.

@Johnny Appleseed I agree with you, mostly. The black monolith is GOD. Dave is old and dying in bed. He sees GOD and is reaching out. Dave dies, and is gone, but his soul (spirit) lives on for eternity, and is taken by GOD to Heaven (i.e. Space), ready to be "re-born" back on Earth in a new baby human. One who will grow up with even greater understanding and enlightenment as to what "IT" is really all about. GOD was never meant to have been "discovered" by Man buried on the Moon. So the black Monolith had to "move" thru Space. If you go back to the beginning of the film where the black monolith appears before Apes on Earth. The monolith (GOD) is imparting into the Apes the first rudimentary amounts of advanced intelligence. The Apes learn to use bones as tools and weapons. Thus blending intelligent with animal instincts to get brutal physical violence by use of a weapon. So goes the human race for the next however many years, until Dave. Dave reaches the highest level yet of any human, as to understanding and enlightenment. Upon his death, his soul (spirit) continues to exist in an even higher level and purer form. To be reborn in a wholly new human physical body. One who will grow up to be an even more advanced being than Dave, as Dave was more advanced than the Apes at the beginning of the film. Thus, no soul (spirit) ever dies, they are just reborn in a new human physical body. .............. I have always held the theory that the most intelligent, talented, capable, and successful humans are the ones who have a reborn soul (spirit) in them. One that has been on Earth many times before over time. View as Reincarnation of the soul (spirit). So humans who are least capable have brand new souls (spirits).

IcarusLime whatever it is it is transcending us into higher consciousness, this film is the perfect example of there being a mysterious force or “God”, thats unexplainable. This life is just a tiny piece to our souls journey. The most incredible piece of art to ever be put to film

It might as well be lol

I thinks this movie represents us How to a man become god?

AnGEl HisPANo it could be?!?!! Kubrick himself said that if you present or talk about a thing in a brilliant manner , then it creates the consoling illusion that you have mastered it

Either that or he's probably living among the stars.

it is but it's about man evolving to a higher state , with the help of some strange intelligence

doesn't it make you sad that you've aged so much since then? become like that old man yourself.

​@@DanuxsyWho the fuck says something like this? Get help

To be fair, name one movie from any time that is like this...

Tenet?

Interstellar came really close

Tree of life is like this movie

@@dohertyz Twin Peaks was similarly good

People overthink this. The meaning is in the book. Read it.

@@geraltofrivia9424 you can distance film from book. There were few changes done in movie compared to the book. The film is open to interpretation

@@PolishGod1234 ... Whatever

​@@PolishGod1234There's a video on RU-vid of Kubrick literally explaining the ending. It's not open to interpretation.

@@sneezydeezymcdeluxe7015 that's how Kubrick interpretated It

everyone's thoughts exactly for this film

The biggest "what" in cinematic history

The Kind Gamers Whaaaat

i literaly yelled "what the fuck" when i realized this was the last seconds of the movie before credits.

UrinatingTheCrowd x)))))

Oh my God I got a commercial brake watching this video clip, the brake was about a newspaper named Epoch Times. 88thumbs up 88 is the orbit of Mercury or Hermes Gods messenger 😇🙏

@@solarisnatuson7928 88 miles per hour you're gonna see some serious shit ;)

no

The man apes encountered the monolith, learned to use tools, and evolved. Bowman experienced the same thing, but since he was already an evolved being, he evolved into what was referred to in the novel as the star child.

He is baby

A SPACE-BABY! A SPABY!

@CloserTheSilentHorse The hidden or esoteric meaning of 2001: A Space Odyssey is this. The monolith is an alien artifact left by extraterrestrial supervisor beings which transforms any intelligent species into a higher evolutionary being with god-like powers. This is very similar to how a initiate student upgrades to a higher rank in a group, team, secret society or esoteric mystery school - in light of discovering new knowledge. The apes and Dave Bowman before encountering the monolith, represent this freshman or novice stage before the encounter with the artifact. Later in the film Dave Bowman comes into contact with it, then he soon gets swept up in a stunningly psychedelic journey through inner & outer space. He is finally transported to another part of the galaxy in some kind of environment which looks like a replica of a French style hotel. He walks around bewildered wondering has just happened. He then watches himself in third person, age very quickly and then dies. He is soon reborn as some kind of superman, neteru being or a "star-child". But this "rebirth" part is only an exoteric demonstration. The birth of the "star-child" in the movie doesn't fully excavate the true meaning of the ending or the occult significance of the film. So what was the arcane objective of this movie? Let me explain the secret that Kubrick left in.The alien artifact on a esoteric level is a representation for wisdom, insight, deep knowledge and/or a stand in for the Qabalistic tree of life. Go google Qabalah or the Tree Of Life. This final stage Dave Bowman ascended to could described as: Apotheosis, qabbalistic evolution, trans-humanism, enlightenment or transforming into a higher evolutionary organism of limitless potential and ungraspable intelligence hence the "Star-Child". This "rebirth" process on the esoteric side, represents an occult initiate or student finally progressing to a final higher "awakened" level. This film is a mix of layers including science technology, space travel, extra-terrestrials and evolution. But the secret of this over-rated movie is that it fundamentally is about the Qabalah once you really probe & dissect the polyglot depth of it.

Absolutely. This movie was far ahead of it's time. Star wars, Star trek the movie pictures and numerous science fiction movies intimated the special affects of 2001 a space odyssey.

Was the technology primitive compared to today? Sure was. But, give the top of the line guitar to a novice and you have shit. Give an old, beat up guitar to Stevie Ray Vaughan and he’ll make it sound sweet. It’s the artists and technicians pulling more out of that primitive technology than these hacks today with cgi.

It took Kubrick 4 years to make this movie. He started working on it in 1964.

and God saw that it was good

*USB stick

Every fan of Iphones (as apes) saw iPhone X in the nutshell.

"Hey Jesus, I lost my fucking phone again. Can you call it so I can hear it ring and find it?"

That makes so much sense actually.

The final face of the Starchild is creepy

Fun fact, every time the monolith shows up, those spooky sounds are played. At the very beginning of the film, all you see is black and the spooky sounds are playing. The monolith is sideways, and you are peering into it. It's literally the screen the film is playing on. Stanley is trying to help advance your consciousness.

gvjudd what are you on about

Yes, it creates a mysterium tremendum feeling, like you’re being stared at or confronted by a living being.

Nah, he's a benevolently guy

This film was at least a decade ahead of its' time.

Talk for your opinion. I loved the ending and was only 10 years old.

Boring as phuck tho.

The greatest ending.

What I have always said the movies today don't have good endings. This one is one of my favorites. Thank you Mr Kubrick. r.i.p.🌹

Cheesy

@@gwenfluker3436 any Christopher Nolan movie?

@@h.d.5194 Cmmon how dare you to compare Nolan's movies with this? Kubrick's movies are on another level

Just got done watching this torturous film and will definitely not be rewatching it. All I know is that if someone ever brings it up in conversation I will be reminded of the CONSTANT FUCKING BREATHING.

Bic Boi well you have shit taste if you consider this film to be torturous

Randy White I think he just hates how the movie can be slow at times

@@cooljackster7390 Maybe. I think he can’t be invested unless there’s an explosion or tits every two minutes. There’s Stanley Kubrick, and there’s Michael Bay. There’s something for everyone.

@@rawheadrex1972 indeed

The Monolith downloads the cerebral software of the physically dying Dave Bowman into a new cosmic body that like Q on Star Trek represents the ultimate evolution of humanity.

I thought it was just a nice arty sequence. I didn't realise it was supposed to make sense.

In the book the crystal absorbs bowmans memories and makes him a starchild a baby with godly powers

Mr.Money, if you're confused my friend, then just enjoy it as a "proverbially good science fiction movie."

Me too but I liked the movie

you can find in the arthur c clarke books the wholes story and the sequels

But then what is he supposed to do?

@@ZakRios333 he will find out - thats actualy the last line of the novel by arthur c clarke hahahaha.

king of kings on earth@@ZakRios333

Agreed, thankyou for reason

***** Generations are becoming more stupid and more douchey where they can't appreciate old films like this. That's what I'm thinking..

Really? I say they can. You're saying they can't compare the art of two films because the technology at the time was different? The art doesn't age like the technology does. Mr holier than thou

***** i take you hate people with adhd

Gaylord Focker Chill out man. You sound pretty douchey saying an entire generation is dumb. You're not better than other people just because you have a different taste in movies.

Jason Armstrong good comment

Teresa Gomes good response

TheRonster9319 thanks

Jason Armstrong Turn into space baby then detonate nuclear warhead in earth orbit? Strange afterlife.

VarietyGamer Strange afterlife? Do you mean that there is a normal afterlife? We know nothing of afterlife, we know nothing about that. That is beyond the terms "strange" or "normal", it transcends that.

Star child the final evolution of man.

GodzillaFanForever 1 no, just the next step in it, and along with it comes a clearer picture of the universe around us

+Necromaster2077 It's God.

This "baby" has much more knowledge than all the humanity.

+Vane Fal Wait, being a part of earth means we're a part of the universe, since the earth itself is contained withint it. So we are never safe, EVER!

+Gábor Vág The monolith represents an initiation. The monolith represents the cinema screen (rotated by 90 degrees). The monolith thus represents an initiation via a cinema screen. Whats the first thing we see, after being initiated? The Moon. What is the main plot point once we reach the modern age? That the truth about the Moon will "have to be kept underwraps for some time". What was the release date of Eyes Wide Shut? The 30th anniversary of the 1st Apollo Moon landing. Kubrick was sending a message. Its up to the individual to receive it.

Very convincing argument, there, Dim. Likely the best a gullible, naive child could come up with.

+Dim7 dimwit

I think that human passed the Great Filter after our own machines turned against ourselves. Then the next step would be a giant leap through the singularity. So after growing old and live the way we loved, we became old and the next giant leap was ahead of us. See that the black square monelite just appear when man kind make a huge advancement. First the first tools, next Hall when they find it in the moon and then in the near end for man kind. Then after the singularity a new baby was born, a new Era of greatness. See Lucy or transcendence. That is what I'm talking about.

So he just became god Cool cool

And after Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon

And after Lyndon, he made The Shining

@@riatorex8722 And then Full Metal Jacket

​@@infinityhand6569 Then Eyes Wide Shut as the closure of his career, that's just amazing.

damn right

You would get The Beatles

you simpletons always link anything that's even mildly thought provoking or requiring of thought, with random drug use. Pathetic.

Those two go hand in hand

@@mightytaiger3000 r/iamverysmart

Hahahaha be serious man

+Frank Messely Most important science fiction film...

+Frank Messely ... maybe one of the most important movies of 20th century ... and one of the films impressed me most ...

Zachary Thomas It's pretty obvious you're a simple minded 12 year old who's mind is unable to comprehend and appreciate the impact this masterpiece had on the history of world cinema.

Its the movie showing the self awareness of men in the cosmos, probably the best film to represent the entire human story

Totally agree, never before or since has there been a film with such perfect and magnificent scope and imagination

Try to explain that to young men accustom to the entertainment of today (garbage for the most part) XD

Ok

Easily

+Bhagwan - I don't think it is the same size as earth it's just the perspective.

An old man pointed at a tall black rectangle, and instantly morphed into a weird alien baby in a bubble. I think a giant earth-sized baby could easily be within the scope of this narrative...

Gábor Vág 153 likes and the time are the same lmao 1:53

Because Kubrick was a fucking genius.

Indeed He Was...

cuz it's f***ing creepy as hell

That's the feeling when you know Kubrick just made the greatest achievement in cinematic history.

Stanley. Kubrick...... Stand ley Ku brick..... Satan lay cube brickMonolith is God, Aliens are demons, God is a demon hyperdimensional.Live ... eviL

Lake City's Finest I’d put the thing (1982) ending there too

"One of the most ..."????

youtube the ending of "if..."

I think the light show and this part are a message from the monolith, like a telepathic sort of thing since when anyone touched it they either gained knowledge or heard a loud noise. It was enlightment, and lightshow part is him gaining all of the information about the universe and existence, when he is in the room it is him seeing all of the stages of his own life and what a human truly is. Then he “evolves” like the monkeys, because he is that enlightened he is so far beyond a human knowledge wise that he became something else, the next step.

Maybe he went trough the four dimension, and it is time

All of it is MIND ..never happened in 3d

That explanation was beautiful

Ryan, 7Y, EXPLAINS, The Bizarre Colours & Shapes, Are, ALL-FREQUENCIES, OR, 'SOUNDS'!! The 'MONOLITH', ISN'T BLACK, ITS A, 'MIRROR'!! TAH, DAH!!

+Freddie Grace You probably hangout with the wrong people.

+Tommy Adamopoulos I mean a room within movie studios. They are afraid to give millions to a director to make really challenging movies anymore because they are worried they won't make enough money. They will say no to David Fincher and Martin Scorsese even. Because they know they won't compromise to make a buck.

+Freddie Grace Martin Scorsese doesn't make thought provoking movies especially not lately.

Saternoc True.

+He-Man Love Donnie Darko but are Kelly's other films as good?

heheheh,out of this world

Mikee Remastered indeed.

No

Yes

@@Wilantonjakov movies were around before stanley kubrick

That quote is taken out of context. Here is the full quote. "The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death - however mutable man may be able to make them - our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfilment. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light."

I think it depends whether you see the universe as created of just appearing (thus violating every law of physics) out of nothing. If it is created, there is no indifference…only purpose.

I'm the same. Starchild always brings tears welling, and I'm not sure why...

coralarch I find it quite depressing, hes become something he never wanted to be, and like it or not, he will live for an eternity.

Danny Moe That's an interesting viewpoint. I see it as him reborn, fresh, evolved, facing new challenges.

coralarch it’s simply nietzsche’s ubermensch

I bet it's because you're a big baby. A goo-goo gaa-gaa baby

From my experience and the youth today I'd say no one younger than 15 could do it. I see so many people today being completely without patience and 2001 is a movie that requires that. Of course, if you do sit through it and pay attention you will have an awesome expericne because wether you love it or hate it there is not other film like 2001: a space odyssey

I watched it when I was only 13 and loved the movie because it invoked an indescribable sense or feeling or a higher power of something that humans could not understand and it related to many memories, thoughts and ideas that I had preconceived and living in a world or practicality where all the people I knew were down to Earth watching the movie felt like it had unlocked these thoughts, dreams, and wordless instincts that I felt no one else understood and was part of the reason of why in parts of my childhood I was a solipsist, believing that I was the only person on Earth who was real or someone with a consciousness and everyone else was fake. It invokes the deepest parts of my mind and my most complex thoughts of infinity and the thought of living forever, not as an adult but as a young child or as I was many times in my dreams. I did not have words or pictures to my thoughts and didn't realize how little I knew. It is a sense beyond what I can describe in words or anyone for that matter. This movie almost made my cry with my dearest thoughts of my inevitable death but my hope to live forever where everything is possible even those things that us humandsare not able to conceive. The power to live as a God and live any life you want forever and have an infinite amount of experiences as well as infinite amount of pleasures. Where we are not bound to our primitive pleasures of food, sex, and other things. Where we can live in any story we wish whether it be ours or that of another. Where we can travel to any place or time, where we an do anything. This movie, watching it late at night on TCM, invokes all of those things from me. If I ever am dull mentally I will watch parts of this movie and it will unleash the genius moments in me. There are rare times in my life where my intellectual capability seems to multiply and I can think so quickly about philosophical concepts about humanity and humans themselves. To leave it shortly, my friend, this movie is what would be the heaven's simplest message to us

Andrew Deyoe Damn!...I guess you proved me wrong and it is awesome you had such a deep experience with the film

+Andrew Deyoe That was deep really deep Palpatine.

+El Hombre Malo thx

***** "An epiphanic out-of-body experience that is impossible to be described in words" Turns out that's just the undiagnosed, pin-sized tumor in your Pineal gland releasing abnormal amounts of DMT into your system.

***** Why would I rather not share my knowledge? I simply referred to the ones who haven't even strained a slightest bit of their brain to try and understand this movie, who then go onto this comment section and describe this movie as shit without explanations. (They too, assume that they're these great intellects with all the understanding that they'd rather not share) It's really not that hard to understand this movie, most people do..

theCorypheaus Fair enough, to each his own I guess. I don't find myself superior, I only expressed my lament towards people who are unwilling to see beyond their limited view.

***** Oh you pretentious, precious little Dunning-Krugerite, you.

jreed136 Lmao

Excellent :)

That's how you understand it, but that's just one interpretation, of many, each of which as weird and interesting as the last. I don't like the movie all that much, but puzzling out what it all means is pretty interesting

At first it sounds like I take a different meaning to you about the message of the film being a "warning", but your closing statement: All is on Earth. I completely agree - even if one of our species transcended, and joined the many however many billions of individuals that went before him: in the rest of the universe they left behind, life is still going on, and still precious. In this context: All is still on Earth, and it needs to be fostered, like a delicate flickering flame.

Beware the unknown? Not sure that's what I get out of it.

Kubrick answered this question in an interview. He was supposed to be taken in by Non-Corporeal God Like Beings who put him in a "Human Zoo" to study and watch; this room that he is in has no sense of space or time and therefore he perceives every moment of his past, present and future life in a single moment, or like jumping back and forth from moments. It was not supposed to be a message. If you have read the book it makes it a little more clear because he actually sees other species, planets, stars as well. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-er_o82OMlNM.html

He made A Clockwork Orange after 2001.

@@chrisantoniou4366 I don't mean chronologically, I mean what I consider his best

@@ctrl_altesc Fair call, I misunderstood. I would also consider Barry Lyndon one of the best photographed films ever. Kubrick's use of the zoom lens needs to be studied by all students of film.

What is the implication of the starchild flying at earth though? Is it supposed to represent that a sort of new messiah is going to be born on earth, that a new age or quantum leap will now begin? Because I've heard people say that the film is about life progressing and developing, and that the monoliths are guiding humanity along in this.

Considering Kubrick did Clockwork Orange after 2001. So ... ...

imdb88 It's a freakin' easter egg for his next movie that is already created that blown my mind... AGAIN!

he looks more like Dave buuuut whateveryousaybruh

@@tenor24sprayse and then in the clockwork orange intro you can hear samples from the shining soundtrack

@@fish_floyd Also when Alex is in that record shop place, when he goes near those two girls there is a record for 2001: A Space Odyssey.

I was looking for this comment

Absolutely, and he didn't even now what the Earth looks like in space at that time!! I saw a Kubrick exhibition in Melbourne after the great man died and was amazed how small and hideous the Starchild model really is- it looks like a jaundiced, skinned rabbit.

Well if that is what the movie is trying to convey then its not that exciting lol. Just an endless circle

Alexandros Petrou i I believe that’s the point

@@themightyjagrafess8596 Circle of Life.

that's the point mang. you're not supposed to understand the universe

Wow...thanks for the the comment...I saw the movie in college...both times after a few bong hits...never understood...freaked me out

Felton Berrios LOL, as a 60s hippy, I would only watch 2001 when stoned off my head....it made sense then! But really, I think it's basically a visual treat, meant to be enjoyed with the soul and heart rather than the brain. I never read the book and don't intend to.

I figured it out after 40 years

coralarch Take a bath

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!!

And here you are adding your own

Made by the greatest director in the history of cinema

@@alejandro10751 Correct, the cinemas Master Magician.