The shifting time isn't just confusing to the audience, it's confounding to Dr. Bowman in his personal zoo, just as those shapeless, formless forces are. Bowman in the bedroom that we are in the POV of the creatures who place him there. Let’s start at the beginning of Kubrick’s interview. It is the pattern of a great deal of mythology, and that is what we were trying to suggest. We have to only guess what happens when he goes back. Anyway, when they get finished with him, as happens in so many myths of all cultures in the world, he is transformed into some kind of super being and sent back to Earth, transformed and made into some sort of superman. Just as we’re not quite sure what do in zoos with animals to try to give them what we think is their natural environment. They choose this room, which is a very inaccurate replica of French architecture (deliberately so, inaccurate) because one was suggesting that they had some idea of something that he might think was pretty, but wasn’t quite sure. It just seems to happen as it does in the film. They put him in what I suppose you could describe as a human zoo to study him, and his whole life passes from that point on in that room. The idea was supposed to be that he is taken in by god-like entities, creatures of pure energy and intelligence with no shape or form. When you just say the ideas they sound foolish, whereas if they’re dramatized one feels it, but I'll try. I’ve tried to avoid doing this ever since the picture came out. In a 1980 interview with Jun ' ichi Yaoi, Kubrick offers his interpretation of the film’s ending:
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