2007-03-04 00:50:21 · 3 answers · asked by ROBERT P 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
leave it to kubrick to take an enigmatic ending and make it beautiful but indeciferable..bowman is changed by the monolith to the next phase of development, like the apes were in the beginning when they touched it and started using weapons..he becomes the star child, and must decide what to do with earth next..he returns in the second movie, sort of..but a smuch as i love kubrick films, if you want to really understand the story read the book!
2007-03-04 03:49:44 · answer #1 · answered by mrjones502003 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The aliens (who we never see) bring about the next phase in human evolution (as it was in the beginning). Since without this help we are incapable of understanding it, it's very mysterious, and was designed to be so.
Somewhat explained in 2010: Odyssey Two, Bowman's spirit lives on and is capable of interacting with people and inanimate objects in a seemingly magical manner.
Arthur C. Clarke, who wrote the stories, also wrote, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
2007-03-04 01:00:04 · answer #2 · answered by dBalcer 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's been a long time since I've viewed the movie.... He watches himself as he begins to age rapidly...eventually dying and then reborn again. As a baby he returns to earth and explodes an orbiting A-bomb before it can destroy the earth. My interpretation is that he was given a higher lifeform and meaning and returned to earth to lead earth away from a path of self-destruction.
2007-03-04 01:02:58 · answer #3 · answered by ironbrew 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋