The special is remembered for several specific, and often bizarre, clips including:
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If the HAL sequence shocks by redefining intimacy as machine-logic, the final 23 minutes—the “Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite” sequence—shocks by violently annihilating the very premise of relational identity. Bowman’s journey through the Star Gate is a psychedelic assault on the senses, but its symbolic meaning is clear: the dissolution of the ego, the death of the individual self that is the necessary substrate for any relationship. The special is remembered for several specific, and
The film’s coldness isn’t a flaw; it’s a warning. Kubrick looks at the “romantic storyline” of the 20th century and asks: Where will intimacy go when we care more about our machines than each other? The film’s coldness isn’t a flaw; it’s a warning