Jump Cut: The Pursuit of Knowledge, God and Reality in ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’

Clarke and Atheism
The more times I see 2001: A Space Odyssey, the stranger the movie gets. Arthur C Clarke said a couple of things about the film which illuminate what it is about, and a number of details in the film offer further clues. Other work he became interested in much later, also casts light on the real subject of the film.
Firstly, there is Clarke’s famous statement that Kubrick and Clarke had persuaded MGM to fund an enormously expensive religious movie (he actually meant a theologica...