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The Lasting And Ultimately Most Important Reputation Of A Film Is Not Based On Reviews, But On What, If Anything, People Say About It Over The Years, And On How Much Affection For It They Have.

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 At A Deep Level—but I Don't Want To Spell Out A Verbal Road Map For 2001 That Every Viewer Will Feel Obligated To Pursue Or Else Fear He's Missed The Point.

Anyone Who Has Ever Been Privileged To Direct A Film Also Knows That, Although It Can Be Like Trying To Write 'war And Peace' In A Bumper Car In An Amusement Park, When You Finally Get It Right, There Are Not Many Joys In Life That Can Equal The Feeling.

I Will Say That The God Concept Is At The Heart Of 2001 But Not Any Traditional, Anthromorphic Image Of God. I Don't Believe In Any Of Earth's Monotheistic Religions, But I Do Believe That One Can Construct An Intriguing Scientific Definition Of God, Once You Accept The Fact That There Are Approximately 100 Billion Stars In Our Galaxy Alone, That Each Star Is A Life-giving Sun And That There Are Approximately 100 Billion Galaxies In Just The Visible Universe.

Busy People Begrudge The Days Being Short. I Can No Longer Sit Back And Allow Communist Infiltration, Communist Indoctrination, Communist Subversion, And The International Communist Conspiracy To Sap And Impurify All Of Our Precious Bodily Fluids.