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- From: jtisdel@digi.lonestar.org (J. Michael Tisdel)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.movies
- Subject: Re: 2001 : What does it mean!!!
- Summary: ***SPOILERS***
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.194746.1467@digi.lonestar.org>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 19:47:46 GMT
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- Now, this is all IMHO...
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- After turning off HAL, Dave continues with the mission. Discovery arrives
- at the point in Jupiter's orbit to which the Tycho Monolith sent its signal.
- Floating there in space is a larger monolith. Dave gets into a pod and goes
- out to investigate. When he gets close to the monolith, a star gate opens
- and the pod is sent through to the home world of the Monolith (or Monolith
- Builders). The flashing lights are the stars by which Dave, in the pod,
- flies at superluminal velocity. At the end of the journey, the pod is set
- down in a cage where he lives out the rest of his life, in the lab or zoo
- of the Monolith Builders. Kubrick uses Dave's observation of himself as a
- time compression device. Dave is not actually jumping around the room and
- ageing. When he is on his death bed, the Monolith appears again and, as it
- has done twice before, helps the human forward in its evolution. The star
- child, then, is the next step in the long journey from the plains of Africa.
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- The 'ultimate trip' mentioned in the preivews is from ape-man to star child
- and not, as some have said, the 15 minutes of flashing lights.
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- "2001: A Space Odyssey" has been called the 'first truly visual movie' where
- the whole of the story is told by the images -- dialog is secondary. The
- ending, like the beginning, is wholely visual.
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