I don’t think anyone fully understood the ending to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey; the film where the blessed Star Child takes off into outer space with the Mona Lisa smile, heading back to Earth in a bubble as if to indicate some kind of renewal. The rest of us gawked at it with confusion, feeling somewhat dejected (or a little doltish) but the film may be easier to interpret nowadays as Interstellar and Arrival provided insights on the same theme.
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