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To start off, huge part of the movie in which the idea of what happens when we die is explored. This starts off as being a sea of colors and landscapes rushing past you until the point that you are scared beyond belief. Kubrick them moves to what would have been the person’s future if he had not died right then and there. It moves through him being old and hearing things as he is eating at a table, to lying in bed, completely cripple and about to die. He then decides to also put into place that you see god before you completely die off. His ending definitely shows that he argues the point that there is a god and that not necessary your life, but what your future life could have been, will pass before your eyes when you die. Kubricks thinking is an incredible way of thinking in the sense that I myself have never even considered such things. Although no one would ever think that they would see what their future life would have been, he does conclude, by so doing, that he believes in determinism. Added determinism to the story only makes is that much more debatable and gives you a whole lot more to think about. Now going back to the idea of many colors and landscapes passing by you as you die, I honestly could not give this any more explanation than that of he just thought this was what happens when you die.
The ending was extrememly strange. What I got from it was that first Dave was being sucked through space and time. After about a good 5 minutes of bright lights and flying over what i believe was jupiter, maybe? He comes to this house. He lands right in the middle of the bedroom and then sees a man. The man of course is him but at an older age. Then we see the room in the older version of Dave's perspective, the pod is gone and he wanders around the house. After seeing him in the mirror, he turns around and sees another man, not wearing a space suit, eating food. This man is an even older dave. Eventually this dave gets up and walks over and of course the other dave is gone and he continues his meal. He then drops his glass and when he bends over to pick it up he sees a very old man laying in bed, close to death. THis is the very, very old dave.This dave points up at something and then we see that he is pointing at the monolith. we then see a fetus floating in something like a womb but it looks more like a bubble. Finally we see the Fetus about the size of the planet.
I don't know if all of this really happened and we just see fragments of time but i believe that the monolith has to do with evolving and rebirth because dave gets very very old and then goes back to being a fetus...and then to being a giant fetus. I don't get it but it was really interesting anyways.
The ending was quite confusing you had the spectrum of colors within the eye, the monolith, the man in the bedroom, and the fetus. No words all music leaving your mind to wonder and interpret for itself. I think each of the things represent something the color spectrum with the eye, is like seeing things in other ways or in other shades. What may look one way my not look the way to another. The monolith symbolizes change or corruption in away, in the beginning when we first see it when the prehistoric characters are introduced to it. They begin to change from it; they become more savage-like and violent. They went from being passive-aggressive to bludgeoning the other prehistoric character. The man in the bedroom silently moves around seemingly phased out showing a confused peace. What is the significance of having him move about in his room? The fetus appearing on the bed seems as a sort of view of new birth or evolution, the development of something larger than what is. The ending its self was quite complex slightly more complex than the movie so much went on in that brief period, so many things can be speculated.
The ending of the movie brought up a lot of questions. At first I had no idea what happened. After Dave disconnects HAL, the TV screen comes on and starts telling some sort of story. Then Dave just sees a lot of colors and designs. I think this is to show how he just went through his life after he disconnected HAL and what his life was like after the Jupiter mission. It seemed like it was saying how his life went by so quickly. He was first eating dinner, then in bed and trying to reach the monolith in the third scene with it. He then became reborn, or so I think he became reborn. The child scared me a little. I didn’t know that it was him being reborn at first, or maybe he wasn’t. It was a really confusing ending and it still brought up questions.
If the ending of the movie was an ending that we would see in any movie in the movie theater or at home, we would not have watched it in philosophy class. Lol The ending to this movie was completely unpredictable, the fact that the bowman arrives into such a nice room at the end of that alien looking road, makes the movie so unexpected. Also with the monolith seen for the last time in the movie, the bowman tries to reach for it while he is in his death bed and it seems that as he reached out to it, he is transformed into a fetus on his bed. The monolith definitely plays a big role in this movie. There is something important that it symbolizes or carries but I still can not get it yet. I will need to do much more thinking in order to come up with an answer for that.
That was honestly the wierdest thing i have ever seen. I think that the who ending was the monolith showing Dave the rest of his life. It moves from generation to generation and then lastly the star child. I think the star child is a reencarnated Dave. Towards the end they say that the monolith is a living thing. I think that it is a representation of God. I makes total sense. It is a living thing, and causes strange things to happen to the space pod. Plus it "shows" dave his future and what happens. It seemed as if the monolith helped the different societies it entered and progressed them whihc could have been the work of God. It is a possible reason for it's appearence in the film.
The whole journey was planned out by the extraterrestrail beings. Monoliths were placed by the extraterrestrial life which hoped for humans to come explore Jupiter. The first monolith was placed four million years ago to observe the apes to help them enhance their intelligence. The second monolith was placed near Clavius, underground giving off radiation, so that humans would become suspicious in the signaling given off, leading them to explore it. Next, the third monolith was placed outside of Jupiter to help lead the final surviving astronaut, Dave, to continue his odyssey. When he is able to survive HAL’s forces, Dave successfully reached Jupiter. There he is lead to another part of space, where he leads the rest of his life. Dave is able to see the remaining parts of his life as he grows older. He leads a life of unknown time because he has been sent to the infinite area of space. There he grows old both physically and intelligently.
His last moments are spent in his bed dying when another monolith appears. This monolith is different, where it gives the power to give him rebirth, and turned into a star child. This star child will probably become a destiny or evolutionary advancement, to help humans after the extraterrestrial beings have taught him.
I really did not understand the ending. And I’m not really sure about what I saw during the end of the film. How did Dave get into that room suddenly if he was in that pod? What were all the colors supposed to represent, his journey? And if he did get transported, where was it? And why did the rooms look like a cross between past and future-ish? All the furniture reminded me of an old European or maybe French bedroom and bathroom. Except the floor is where the source of the room’s lighting comes from I’m guessing. It’s not really something that you’d see everyday though. Were there really aliens? And did everything that looked like something you’d find on Earth come from the radio signal that Dr. Floyd mentioned in the video that Dave saw? Or would I be completely wrong about that? But what I really wondered about is why Dave was transformed into a fetus which was called the Star child? I’m hoping I’ll get some questions answered in the discussion later.
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