What can be more fitting in relation to the themes of this article than the fact that Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C Clarke's vision of man's most significant moment of transcendence is experienced in complete solitude and isolation? Like his human counterparts the evolved star child being that Dave Bowman becomes is last shown gazing at the earth, exhibiting that Wellesian need to share and love with humanity, demonstrating that his journey into the infinite doesn't have any worth if he doesn't impart his knowledge on humanity for the greater good. Like the themes of isolation that Kubrick later explored in A Clockwork Orange and The Shining, 2001 was one of the first films to truly capture something of what the experience for deep space astronauts would really be like. Never is the loneliness of space more apparent than the latter half of the film when, with his crew dead, Bowman sets about disconnecting HAL 9000, and HAL's earliest memory of the song "Daisy Bell" seeps slowly from his dwindling memory banks.
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