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So glad they decided not to depict the aliens. That alone would have drastically changed the mystifying effect of the finale and weakened it. That said it's cool looking through their early concepts.
camarillobrillo · 3670 days ago · link ·
The ending is perfect. The movie is one big sexcapade. The ship is a phallus. Bowman is the sperm. The monolith an egg. Bowman, much like the apes before him, reaches the monolith on Jupiter and is transformed into the Star Child. The psychedelic wormhole represents the act itself and the vast knowledge being passed to him by the monolith. The whole white room sequence is an allegory for life and death. The human race is old and has reached it's peak. Bowman, reborn as the Star Child, is the next step in evolution.