At present, my ruling is, this is not a depiction of a hellscape, if that, only a hint of it, possibly colored by emanations.Īnd then we come to reason for all this, the meeting, another meeting, way up here, come all this way for what? Here we find out that the plague story is a cover, and that the real story is that a monolith has been found which is the first proof in world history that aliens from outer space exist, and we have to handle this politically so that the world does not go into shock. The angel with the key to the bottomless pit, as I read of in Waetzholt’s Durer last nightĪll of which of course frames Sylvester. If this is a hint of a belief of Pandemonios, with space then the bottomless pit below, it COULD be a tacit version of Which could be working off of a long tradition of the head of John the Baptist as a harbinger of losing one’s head for whatever, of baroque, lost head, not thinking art, it might be a hidden easter egg bespeaking the critique of the pointlessness of all this technologyīut then again as it lowers, and the camera pulls back, it could be a lego-like version of a demon that they are now engaging, by this entry, and that will sabotage the outing, a warning figure. ![]() And when it is lowered, I cannot help but see a very large red head, with beedy eyes, being lowered down, as if a head on a platter It does look like this completely unnecessarily complicated tree structure is lowering the ship into a kind of architectural hell. This raises the possibility that Kubrick saw space, or the moon, as a hell on earth formation, or perhaps more correctly a darkside of the moon formation. Not only do we see that the ship is very small compared to the massive complex, but that it is all red below Posted, February, 2022, in memory of Douglas Trumbull, special effects.Ĭoming toward the moon, we see, in a Caspar David Friedrich shot, the landing, and the station below (this sort of shot again grounds the ego)Įverything in this movie is very much target focused, centralizedīut, then, a surprise, when the platform upon which the ship lands is lowered into the complex.
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