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I wouldn't look too deeply into the movie's separations from the text. One is a very neat science fiction story that allows you to hold your own interpretation
by stagbeetle 10y ago
I wouldn't look too deeply into the movie's separations from the text.
One is a very neat science fiction story that allows you to hold your own interpretations and the other is a vision quest that tells you where you're going.
Kubrick has always been liberally symbolic in his works, many times sacrificing "story elements" to show the picture he wants you to see.
- the_af 10y agoOh. I'm fully aware of the differences between the novel and the movie (and also the fact that they were complementary and simultaneous works). I'm just arguing that in the movie HAL may actually be insane. As an aside, I liked the movie better. It is a timeless work of art and (to me) the measure of every non-space-opera space movie, whereas the book was ok but not memorable.