2001: A Space Odyssey - that last scene is pretty messed up

A few months ago I saved Stanley Kubrick’s awesome 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey on the DVR. As you know, the movie is based on a book of the same name by Arthur C. Clarke who, incidentally, passed away a few weeks ago. I finally got around to watching it last night.

The movie is great, with its cinematography and photographic effects. Makes you think about ethics and technology too, in that one of the fundamental points of the plot is the conundrum of how to deal with HAL, the powerful computer that was essentially in charge of the mission to Jupiter.

The last scene of the movie (Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite) is way screwed up, and one is naturally left to ponder its meaning. Here’s what I think:

You’ll notice that Dave became that which he saw. When he arrived in that white, illuminated bedroom in the pod, he first saw himself standing in his space suit before himself. The pod then disappeared, and Dave was alone, standing in the space suit outside the pod. Then the space-suited Dave saw himself seated at a table, eating, as an old man. He then became that old man. The old man, after knocking the glass of water off the table, looked over and saw the wretched version of himself lying in bed, whom he became. That wretched version then saw before him the black monolith. We then see the transformation of Dave into a fetus. So, bottom line, the monolith must represent something of the origin of life.

Here’s a really interesting mashup, the scene with Pink Floyd’s song “Echoes” laid over the top of it.

I had always heard that Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon synched with The Wizard of Oz, but didn’t know about any purported synchronization between Echoes and 2001 until doing the research for this post. Here’s some more background on Wikipedia.

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