i didn't quite understand it. a couple of different ideas were flying around about what roughly was going on but when it comes down to it i really didn't understand it. what was with that black metallic hershey bar thing and the different colors he was seeing. and what was that baby at the end.
2007-07-13 12:19:18 · 9 answers · asked by mlkirchgessner 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
I believe that Dave actually was reborn as an incarnation of Al Gore and all the rapidly moving colors depicted global warming and drowning polar bears.
2007-07-13 15:08:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's really open to interpretation, which I like. The astronaut "goes into" the monolith (the hershey bar thing) and has quite a life-changing experience. In the book, if I remember, the place he ends up is some kind of a zoo (y'know, that room where he sees himself becoming an old man), and that kind of explains all the weird background noises in that sequence. He obviously dies and is reborn as part of the universe - the star child.
2007-07-13 19:25:22 · answer #2 · answered by chazzychef 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The baby at the end is Dave, reborn into the Star Child.
The next step in evolution.
The "metallic hershey bar thing" aka a monolith, is the same one at the beginning of the film with the apes and the same one that was found on the moon.
The colours are, I think, a star-gate.
Somebody else may understand it differently. Kubrick is just that way. ; )
2007-07-13 19:27:22 · answer #3 · answered by tantiemeg 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The story, while seemingly simple, is profound. Sequentially, several mysterious black monoliths are discovered and basically trigger certain events integral to the film. What are they? Where did they come from? What do they do? These are all questions one asks oneself while watching the story develop and is asked to find his own way. While most come away with a general idea of what took place in the story, each individual will have to decide what it means to them. Any way one decides to answer these question results in profound solutions. It's not left entirely up to interpretation, but in some aspects it is. Experience it for more clarification. The end result is quite chilling, no matter your personal solution.
2007-07-13 19:23:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It signified rebirth. The movie was very vague. It would take too long to explain it here, go to the library or someplace like that and read the last chapter. It will all make sense.
2007-07-13 19:28:31 · answer #5 · answered by Mickie K 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What you need to do is watch the movie 2010: a space odyssey and they kind of explain what it all means. 'The wikipedia article explains it a little http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_%28film%29
Good Luck!!!
2007-07-13 19:35:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
In my opinion it was a version of what damage and ultimate destruction humans have done to the earth. And when they are in denial of it or look back on it they are faced to see the error of their own ways. They have to own up and face what they have done to themselves instead of blaming an outer source or some "foreign" power.
2007-07-13 19:28:10 · answer #7 · answered by shootingstars957 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That movie was horrible and made no sense to anyone but the crazy director who made it.
2007-07-13 19:23:05 · answer #8 · answered by SuperClerk 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
reincarnation or rebirth is my choice here.
2007-07-13 19:22:13 · answer #9 · answered by cadaholic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋