I spoke with many people who love this film. I heard a lot of explanations, each thinner than its predecessor. nothing has convinced me thet the end means anything. It sounds like people excuses kubrick , I really do not know what he was thinking ...
But it's more than that. Beyond that the movie does not understood, is pretentious. So pretentious that makes you just hate it. Each transmitter shot him "I am a genius! I'm a genius and created a brilliant film, a man inferior like you would never understand! If you do not see it twenty thousand times and will investigate all shot him, you do not deserve to understanding the hidden meanings found in it !!!".
It's not just the end bizarre, is all. The way he may, for example ... say the scene thet the astronaut fixes the spacecraft, and for several minutes at a time we just see the astronaut floating slowly toward the ship.
Now, any sane director would cut this shot, because he knows you can not make the audience watch for 2 minutes, an astronaut moving slowly. It's not commercialization, it is common sense. But Kubrick? Of course not. After all, who does not have the patience to sit down to watch an astronaut moving, not live to finish his amazing masterpiece.
And it's not just this scene, is all ... Minutes of darkness ... Long passages without words, fools horribly slow ... Kubrick did not care if his audience, who cares only about fulfilling the vision of his genius. And that was all right somehow, if we eventually get to discover the secret of himself and impressed by his genius. But no, Kubrick insisted on in it ourselves, mainly through speculation and endless digging in film that I really suffered, and I'm sure many here.
sorry for the spelling mistakes, if any. english is not my first language.
But it's more than that. Beyond that the movie does not understood, is pretentious. So pretentious that makes you just hate it. Each transmitter shot him "I am a genius! I'm a genius and created a brilliant film, a man inferior like you would never understand! If you do not see it twenty thousand times and will investigate all shot him, you do not deserve to understanding the hidden meanings found in it !!!".
It's not just the end bizarre, is all. The way he may, for example ... say the scene thet the astronaut fixes the spacecraft, and for several minutes at a time we just see the astronaut floating slowly toward the ship.
Now, any sane director would cut this shot, because he knows you can not make the audience watch for 2 minutes, an astronaut moving slowly. It's not commercialization, it is common sense. But Kubrick? Of course not. After all, who does not have the patience to sit down to watch an astronaut moving, not live to finish his amazing masterpiece.
And it's not just this scene, is all ... Minutes of darkness ... Long passages without words, fools horribly slow ... Kubrick did not care if his audience, who cares only about fulfilling the vision of his genius. And that was all right somehow, if we eventually get to discover the secret of himself and impressed by his genius. But no, Kubrick insisted on in it ourselves, mainly through speculation and endless digging in film that I really suffered, and I'm sure many here.
sorry for the spelling mistakes, if any. english is not my first language.