2001: A Space Odyssey - Ending Explained

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[LIQUIDSNAKEz]

I COMPLETELY understood this movie, but then the acid wore off.

[chimpinaneckbrace]

Explain the ending to you? I’m sorry Dave. I can’t do that.

[swagpuertorican]

Everyone: wtf did I just watch
Stanley Kubrick: you wouldn't get it

[danpenia]

The ending made me feel like how I felt during math class in high school

[pradnyadesai]

Whoever that has installed the monolith at Utah has got a really dark sense of humour

[vicenteortegarubilar]

Me: I need to study, I need to stop watching screenprism videos.

A voice in my head: I am sorry Vic, I'm afraid I can't do that.

[jacksaintjack]

A cinematic masterpiece. To create special effects so startling that they appear to be created today, yet done 50 years ago is incredible. Images, lighting, suspenseful silence, the struggle between man and artificial intelligence. Pure genius.

[kennooo]

My Brain: tries to make sense of this film

Also My Brain: *I'm sorry Brain, I'm afraid I can't do that.*

[matthewmorrison]

What makes 2001: A Space Odyssey so special is its use of cosmic horror.
Rather than scaring the audience with graphic images of gore and jumpscares, it relies on evoking fear into its viewers through subtle intimidation that makes them realize how small they are. After Dave passes "beyond the infinite" he is presented with a display of sights and images that are impossible to verbalize. When he ends up in the otherworldly dimension, he cannot explain what he is witnessing. The human brain is incapable of processing what he is looking at, and if I had to describe the feeling it would be something like "trying to point out every detail in a realistic painting"

You experience it, but you can't think around it.
It makes us realize just how little we've come in evolution compared to what we become in the future.

[hfkhan]

"If 2001 has confused you, but still emotionally affected you, then it's done it's job."

*I can't tell how happy I felt when you said that*

[Afxonidis]

Is it just me or during the whole film, especially the last part, I was so quiet and into the movie, and when it has finished I yelled "WHAT THE ACTUAL FCK!"

[jmchez]

According to the actor, Keir Dullea, the wine glass scene was not in Kubrick's original plan.

He told Dullea to act as if he heard a sound coming from the bed. Dullea thought that was kind of boring and, as an actor, wanted to act. So he proposed that he was going to act clumsily, knock the glass over, reach for it and notice his older self on the bed. Kubrick thought that that was brilliant. He may have grasped the deeper meaning that so many people attribute to the glass breaking or, he may have just simply liked more movement in that one scene.

[nicholaskatsikas]

This movie must have been a trip if you were on LSD

[unclemonty]

my dad took me to see 2001 when I was around 5 years of age and I'd seen it at least 3 times before I was 10. I'm no genius but it affected me so profoundly that even though I am now 56 it is still the most incredible piece of cinema I have ever seen

[christopher]

Am I the only one who felt like it was strange how the main character switched halfway through the film? Like it went from Heywood being brain scrambled by the monolith and we never saw him again.

[BrickAlmondsArchive]

the drinking of the glass of water is a mirror image of te apes drinking water at the sgart of the movie in the lake. The glass is the next stage of drinking and it breaking shows that the next stage after that is going to begin,

[moonlightmando]

I watched this last week. I’m 16, so way after its time. I saw it being listed in the airplane’s movie selection and it ringed a bell, so i gave it a watch. I will say, HAL was so well made down to every line of dialogue, and the ending had me experiencing an emotion that i cant depict. By the time it got to the part where the old bowman looked at the bed, i knew it was going to show an even older, dying, bowman and it didn’t disappoint. For being made in 1967 (I think), it was way ahead of its time both in writing and visuals.

[eyezack]

I never felt so confused while watching a movie, that ending left me speechless, brilliant film.

[alx]

i do not understand how this movie looks better than most space movies nowaday...