2007-06-18 06:32:16 · 7 answers · asked by danielle h 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
The whole point of it was that the monolith gave man the ability to make tools to help them. Man used those tools to kill each other. HAL was a tool built by man that learned to kill.
In the end The monolith chooses the man who shut down HAL (stopped the killing machine) for some kind of re-birth. 1st He comes face to face with his own mortality (the old man in the bed) then enternity, lastly He's seen as the "star child".
In the next movie (2010), another planet in the solar system is given life, and a 2nd sun created, and The astronaut from the 1st movie returns to get HAL (it doesn't explain why).
They never made a 3rd movie to wrap it all up. Sombody told me to read the books, but even the cliff-note version of them is WAYYYY too confusing...
2007-06-18 06:44:09 · answer #1 · answered by Capt Crasher 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
You really do need to read the book, unfortunately. Kubrick was a great film-maker, but Clarke is not a great story-teller either on film or in print - the book is quite heavy-going.
And if you think that's bad, you should definitely steer clear of the book The Lost Worlds of 2001, where Clarke details all the rejected ideas for the end of the film. Pure self-indulgence.
2007-06-18 09:03:52 · answer #2 · answered by Daniel R 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Basically, it's death and rebirth. The "death" of David Bowman's old life, and his rebirth as a Star Being.
I agree with stephen k that the book for 2001 doesn't make much sense at the end, either. If you get a chance, read the book for 2010 (the sequel). It's more clearly written and it has enough "flashback" scenes in it that it helps to explain 2001.
2007-06-18 06:43:19 · answer #3 · answered by Navigator 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you see 2010, that will sorta tell you a bit more about the ending to 2001. There is a third in the series, a book - not a movie. 2061. It closes some of the loopholes.
ALL if it was written BEFORE all our spacecraft took pictures and took readings from Jupiter and it's satellites. The story includes much about Europa that we now know is fact.
Sort of a 20th century nostrodamus.
2007-06-18 06:45:42 · answer #4 · answered by Revenant Hamster 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
2001 is a very frustrating movie for me. It's a lot like Blade Runner - visually stunning but with a slow, muddled story that ultimately doesn't satisfy.
I've never seen 2001 all the way through as it just gets so slow, boring and confusing. Somewhere in there is a classic movie struggling to get out, the one we have isn't it.
2007-06-18 06:55:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
One could comment it is about rebirth (don;t bother reading the book; it's just as confused)
2007-06-18 06:38:01 · answer #6 · answered by Experto Credo 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
more of a Space Oddity lol
2007-06-18 06:35:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋