In a 2018 essay that coincided with the 50th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey", Owen Gleiberman, writing in Variety, analyzes the impact of the movie and what it all really meant. (His theory is that it was less about space travel than the fact that technology could now mimic the intimacies of human feeling.) The film seemed poised to be a boxoffice flop but an imaginative new marketing campaign aimed at younger audiences clicked and paid off handsomely. Today, of course, it is regarded as a classic for the ages, even though some posture that anyone who thinks they really know what it is all about doesn't know what it's all about. It remains a fascinating puzzle that each of us can interpret in our own way.
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