When asked about his impression of the film and its ending, Jim Hosney, a professor of literature at the American Film Institute, said that it was much like Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film “2001: A Space Odyssey.” “It’s the same feeling because Space Odyssey ends with a mystical experience,” he said. “Once you go through the star gate and the star-child at the very end turns and looks at you. You have no idea what’s going to happen. You know that this is the next step in the evolution of man. But you don’t know what that step is.”
David Wolpe, lead rabbi at the Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, Calif., said the film raises issues that are not meant to be resolved, and he compared the ending to how couples fight. “You go back and forth trying to figure out who’s right until you finally decide, ultimately, that the only way to end the argument is to not care who’s right. And you can make love and the argument is over. Or you can continue to argue.”
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