Stanley Kubrick Explains the Ending of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ In Unreleased Documentary
Stanley Kubrick wanted the meaning of 2001: A Space Odyssey to be ambiguous, left open to interpretation by the audience. He told Playboy magazine in 1968, “You’re free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded in gripping the audience…