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Adam, you can adopt that interpretation, because if that is your interpretation, it can also be the interpretation of everything positive (or negative, for that matter) in every story that's ever told. I just choose not to adopt that specific interpretation for the exact same reason. Because...

Josh, I agree... Plus, I'm a huge Beethoven fan, and that's about the most effective use of the 7th Symphony I've ever seen.

Thanks. I love this movie, and I've watched it many times & thought about it a lot through the years. The fact is, I like this interpretation so much, that if it's wrong, I don't want to know it. I don't care. It's what the movie means to me and anything different will only diminish it.

It's not religious at all, but a LOT of people have misinterpreted it as such. It is really, deeply, Science Fiction. Roger Ebert seemed to be one of the few critics who understood that when it came out. In fact, I take it as an homage to a particular Arthur C. Clarke novel. I'll put the...