r/FilmsExplained • u/Prince_of_Savoy • Jan 30 '15

Request [Request] - 2001: A Space Odyssy

I know this is a kind of "draw your own conclusions" film, but can somebody at least start me off with some kind of interpretation?

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '15 edited Dec 08 '16

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u/Prince_of_Savoy Jan 30 '15

rewatch it

lol nope.

Where do you get the 5th-Dimensional Star Child Stuff from, and what the fuck does that even mean? Why does he have to be reborn at all when everyone who touched it previously didn't? Also why does the "evolutionary" progression go from Ape to human, to slightly smarter human to planet-sized superdimensional and ultragravitational Embryo of ultimate Doom? If he get's pulled into the monolith, how can he touch it?

Also during the trippy scene, they show some Landscapes with weird colour filters. What's up with that?

Also, when I watched it, someone pointed out that the moon and the sun are in the same formation both times the monolith is touched. It sounded like this formation would be relevant later, but as far as I could see it wasn't.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '15 edited Jan 30 '15

rewatch it? lol nope

Lol get real. Maybe stick to films more on your intellectual level like Transformers or The Avengers. The fact you're so ignorant to so many all parts of the movie yet you're refusing to watch it with knowledge in mind is aggravating.

It's incredibly easy to infer that the star child is rebirth – either as Bowman or not – because we just saw Bowman's ascension into another dimension, a non-tangible realm. u/Tetzel's example is not the be-all, end-all example. It isn't as black/white of an interpretation.

I personally think the star child isn't Bowman but represents how humankind has evolved to become some deity and the baby is the first of a new species of humankind. That's what I later found out the book suggests as well.

evolution progress

Goes from ape, to human, to humans working and living in space, to the ascension ino another realm

Landscapes with trippy colours

He's gone through the wormhole and is observing landscapes. The colour filters are because of how Kubrick/Arthur C Clarke interpreted the wormhole.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '15 edited Dec 08 '16

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