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Originally Posted by horn
I don't agree with the idea that the starchild sequence is pretentious. Nor do i think it's an image for the sake of an image. It's there to show what Dave has become. Admitedly a posthuman/starchild probably wouldn't look like a foetus but the reason (i assume) why they made it a foetus was to give the viewers a more explicit message as to what exactly has gone on. If they had simply shown some kind of energy-field you'd be saying exactly the same thing.
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Man travels to the end of the universe, somehow becomes more than man and travels back in time and floats around in space. Yeah. Unpretentious!
Cool message for a movie though. If you can make it to the end of the universe you too can become a foetus that floats around in space.