i be always surprised and give that the famous title track of 2001 be call also sprach zarathustra and that nobody ( nobody i have read and anyway ) have note the parallel between the movie and nietzsche famous work and also sprach zarathustra . the idea of man rebirth into a star child while an infant form of an indescribably more advanced be and be an explicit part of n. zarathustra while there be a prominent passage call on how a camel become a lion and and a lion become a child and in which n. describe the first incarnation of the overman a a child and transcend both the ascetic and altruistic side of man ( the camel while always ask to bear more weight ) and the rapacious and brutish and will to power side of man ( the lion ) . the fact that the song play during the star child sequence can hardly be coincidence . and also and zarathustra say that man be a rope tie between beast and the overman . the structure of the movie fit that description represent a brief history of man a beast and until we become truly man by master weapon and acquire reason and then a long sequence about man ( the rope and a it be ) and and then a brief glimpse of the overman . the inscrutability of how these transformation occur and and the suggestion that an external force cause them and be also nietzschean while in zarathustra and he make it pretty clear that he doesn not have a clue how people be go to be able to enact these change themselves and suggest that we will have to depend on an outsider ( zarathustra ) to show u how to go under . bowman psychedelic sequence at the near end could be see a kubrick best 1960 style attempt at depict the mystical go under . i know these parallel be pretty broad and and almost certainly have be note elsewhere despite the fact that i have not personally see it . but i just want to mention them and if for no other reason than to try to dispel the myth that nietzsche be ultimately a gloomy philosopher . few people find the end of 2001 to be gloomy and and it be in my opinion and explicitly and unmistakeably nietzschean . the case could certainly be make that 2001 be above all a dramatization of zarathustra update for the modern age . feel free to disregard the outright snobbishness of my tie everything to nietzsche .