The audience doesn't need to know how Dave feels about his predicament and his reaction to it. Instead, Kubrick jumps the audience from the traumatic happenings in the last section, and the haunting disconnection of HAL, to the Jupiter and the Beyond the Infinite encounter because, obviously, the story is not so much about Dave as it is about the audience. What happened during that time? Was Dave in touch with Mission Control? Was the ship controlled by HAL's twin on earth or did Dave alone pilot the Discovery One? How did he psychologically survive on this long journey without Poole and the hibernators? None of these questions are addressed. What does the silent gap mean? We don't know. Okay, now we are here at Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite, a great and silent gap existing between Heywood's recorded revelation of the real purpose for the trip to Jupiter and Discovery One's arrival at Jupiter where it finds a massive monolith. SKIP ALL THIS AND TAKE ME TO THE TL DR WRAP-UP AT THE END OF THE PAGE. This 2nd section of the film is 237 shots just as is the number of the perplexing room in The Shining. We then see the duality on either side of the monolith, the mirrored opposites, and the monolith as the space between the opposites. And then the monolith appears which would be an approximation of HAL's move of the Queen two spaces to Bishop 3 (Bishop 6) with HAL seeing both points of view at once. This is the moment at which, back in the chess game between Frank and HAL, Frank moving his rook from F1 to E1, that HAL says, "I think you missed something." Dave now looks up and sees himself in the bed. The water glass of Dave's breaks on chess board square E1. Dave's shattering of the glass and Alex's drinking of the wine. Though not actually reversed (he moves diagonally) this does incorporate the idea of being able to see both sides at once due the seeming reversal. Shots 584 and 585 have the same move of a chess figure on the floor (the Rook, which is the chariot of the dining table) as observed in the shots of Danny on the "reversed" carpet of the Overlook. Shot 584 establishes the room as a chess board with 64 squares on the floor. The double wheel of the space station and the dining cart. Dave confronts his elder self in the bathroom mirror just as Jack confronts the old, decaying woman in the bathroom mirror in Room 237. A comparison with Bowman in 573 with Frank in shot 364. The monolith figure appears to be the cause of the occlusion in HAL's eye. Where the character of Symslov (named after a chess player) should be seems replaced by a monolith type object? HAL had at one point duplicated Symslov's dialogue. I discuss elsewhere morphing throughout Kubrick's work, such as signaled in The Shining in music titled "Polymorphia". Go to Fear and Desire for Proteus as the dog and Eyes Wide Shut for the book Kubrick includes which has shapeshifting djinn. And now is when I discuss the Djinn chairs designed by Olivier Mourge and the protean nature of Djinn. The peculiar reflection in the window of Dave's helmet, reversed, brings back the scene of Heywood speaking with the Russians on Space Station 5. These colors seen also when Dave cut off the communication in the pod so he and Frank could speak. The painting by Boucher, Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Faustus.The turquoise in the background, beyond and reflected in Dave's red helmet, in shot 572, and its relationship to the titles in The Shining and the "reversing" rug in The Shining. The ceiling becoming the floor is anticipated with the 180 degree turn of the flight attendant on the Aries. The floor of the bedroom is as if what was the ceiling of the Space Station where we saw the Hilton and Howard Johnson's Hotels. See, of course, Eyes Wide Shut and the invitation for Bill to go to where the rainbow ends. The experience now shifts to being that of the viewer.ĭave goes to the end of the rainbow with, in shot 563, his eye shown in numerous colors. LINKS TO SECTIONS OF THE ANALYSIS ON THIS PAGE: TOC and Supplemental Posts | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Films Home Go to TOC for this film ( (which has also a statement on purpose and manner of analysis and a disclaimer as to caveat emptor and my knowing anything authoritatively, which I do not, but I do try to not know earnestly, with some discretion, and considerable thought).
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