Are the last few minutes a powerful tryptamine (dpt/dmt/some such drug) trip? Although I've seen 2001: A space odyssey before, I jsut thought it was a long, slow paced movie with a crazy ending, but after having taken such substances, I look at it differently. If you don't know what I mean, go watch the ending of the movie. There are: INTENSE VIBRATIONS WHAT THE FUCK OMG COLOURS PEAK weird as fuck death zone entity (the black thing that is mysterious) death REBIRTH It all makes sense now. Or am I just crazy?
This is the full ending to the movie, set to Pink Floyd's "Echoes". Check it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f88NZ1sxWX0"]YouTube - Pink Floyd 2001: A Floyd Odyssey Full Ending Scene
Yeah it's definitely some good shit. I have yet to watch that clip or the movie while tripping, but I know it would be perfect
I think I'd get the fuck out of the room within 30 seconds of putting that movie in. Can't stand listening to those apes for that long. Don't get me wrong, it's a good movie but I really just can't take the beginning.
Yes, you get it. He's got no choice - he's a couple billion miles from home with only a psychotic/murderous computer for company. He chooses to go into the "stargate." It is clearly a hyperspace tunnel. The entities have him now. Rather than rush and examine him they place him under observation into an environment plucked from the content of his mind that they think might be familiar/comfortable to him. Something happens to him there, something hard to languagize, but Kubrik was a MASTER of the language of film . . . . In the space of about 10-15 mins on the consensual reality clock he is taken through his entire life timeline by the non-visible entities. In the VERY end, it is kind of like the uplift or elevate him, . . . they give him a taste of their own powers. All he wants is to go home. He is instantly back in orbit around the Earth. The entities have given him their power but he is aware that compared to him he is like a child, like a baby, like a fetus . . . . . At least that's kinda what i get out of it. Great psychedelic hyperspace visuals too. Very 60's, gel-film, split-screen kinda stuff. Use computers, make it more geometric and it would be much more like DMT tunnels for me . . .
The whole theme of the movie was that mysterious black object propelling evolution to whoever stumbled upon it. At first the apes found it and started standing upright, eating meat and wielding weapons. Fast-foward to humans early space travels to the moon and they stumble upon another black object. Now artificial intelligence was created (HAL). The whole scene with the spaceship occurs and finally the surviving astronaut gets to the warp gate. This sends him flying through space at light-speed towards the final black object. In the room he ages and dies and is reborn as a "Star-child", signaling a new age of "space-ape". I can see some relation to psychedelics, perhaps this "black object" is a metaphorical mind enhancer!
I believe Kubrik stated that he gained influence from LSD, so there is most definitely a relation to psychedelics in the film .
It seems a lot more like a powerful tryptamine than like LSD to me, though. LSD is like a journey, DPT is a lot more like this, starting off with hyperspace. It's a pretty cool looking hyperspace, too, especially for the times. Damn, I fucking love Stanley Kubric!
THere are all these videos that I watched a while back and thought were awesome and cool and whatnot...Then I did Damn Powerful Tryptamines. And now they make sense. The space odysee ending is a good example, but check this out too: [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_ICcz6kXP birdy nam nam is also a really cool band...
