Kubrick left off the lines in the book that tied the whole thing together... "he would think of something." That line was at the end of the ape sequence and at the end of the novel with the baby God. It ties the concept of a new, higher evolved being at the end of the learning process. The newer ape-man would think... of something to do with his new power; the baby God would think... of something to do about the missiles. (I forget whether they were being fired at him or from nation to nation.) These steps were quantum leaps in evolution. If there ever was a movie where you had to read the book to enjoy the movie, this was it. The movie was vague indded. Siegfried Quoting Kim Hyatt <kimharch@msn.com>:
Kubrick said that if movie goers understood 2001, then he had failed. He wanted the film to be somewhat ambiguous and to stimulate the imagination.
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