2001: A Space Odyssey Ending Explained: The Star Child, the Monolith, and What Kubrick Meant
Short answer: At the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey, astronaut Dave Bowman is pulled through a cosmic gateway near Jupiter, ages a lifetime in a strange, elegant room, and is reborn as the glowing Star Child — a new stage of humanity, returned to gaze down on Earth. Director Stanley Kubrick later described it, … Read more