Film Paranoia on Instagram: "Stanley Kubrick Explains the Ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey In a rare 1980 phone interview, Stanley Kubrick broke his silence about the film’s final sequence. He described advanced, non-corporeal aliens placing Bowman in a human “zoo,” where he rapidly ages before being transformed into the Star Child — the next stage of human evolution. Kubrick almost never explained his films. This is one of the only times he did. Does knowing the explanation enhance the mystery o