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Originally Posted by horn
The transhumanism theme is fairly overt in the "starchild" sequence and while maybe a little less spelt out during scenes such as HAL's 'malfunctioning', it is there. The 'meta-theme', in this branch of the film, far from being an old think scare storey a la frankenstein that tomkat has suggested is that HAL (an AI) is not only sentient and in possesion of the will to live but also feels empathy and indeed guilt at lying to the rest of the crew.
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Wait, when does he feel empathy or guilt? The starchild sequence is probably the most pretentious bit in the film, it's purely an image for the sake of an image, rather in keeping with the rest of it in my opinion.
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I'm genuinely unsure what areas are considered pretentious.
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Look it up, it's not exactly the most uncommon criticism inm the history of the universe. We do have the internet for things like this after all.