I did not know that. (Off-Topic)

by narcogen , Andover, Massachusetts, Friday, July 24, 2015, 11:19 (3219 days ago) @ CyberKN

In that case, I have no idea how the audience is supposed to understand what's happening in the last third of that film.

I think you're just supposed to speculate about it. There really would be no good way for the film to communicate those ideas without a mechanism like a voiceover, and Kubrick (I think wisely) chose not to include one.

It's also possible to watch the sequel and get a kind of explanation of what happened at the end of 2001 from that.

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