Stupid background music ruins another KZbin video.

The book "2001: A Space Odyssey". is not canon for Kubrick's movie. In collaboration Clarke, and Kubrick agree the book is common expository science fiction. This movie is the most complex layered, and puzzling of Kubrick movies. Kubrick movies always have a puzzle layer to them. Figuring out the puzzle is part of the fun of Kubrick movies. Beware, spoilers ahead. The movie is illustrative of Friedrich Nietzsche's 1883 book, "Also sprach Zarathustra". Zoroaster has nothing to do with Nietzsche's character Zarathustra. Nietzsche just thought it was cool to name his character after a founder at the root of religion, particularly Christian religion, to give him authority while the character Zarathustra decries religion, particularly Christian religion. "Also sprach Zarathustra" is the name of that grand title music, the music during the scene where the monolith teaches the ape to use a tool, and the end where it turns the man into a super being. Nietzsche's character Zarathustra posits the Übermensch (superior man) as a goal for humanity to set for itself. The Übermensch represents a shift from otherworldly death oriented religious, particularly Christian, values and manifests the grounded life affirming human ideal. The Übermensch is someone who has "crossed over" the bridge, from the comfortable, easy, mindless acceptance of what a person has been taught, and what everyone else believes to the mountains of unrest and solitude. Zarathustra is the narrator of a series of short stories to illustrate, and teach the points to support the position ending each story with "Also sprach Zarathustra", "Thus spoke Zarathustra". In this movie the monolith has the role of Zarathustra, narrator, and teacher. Now you know the monolith character has a name. Zarathustra. Zarathustra tries to show that the comfortable easy, mindless acceptance of what a person has been taught, and what everyone else believes, is mediocre, and repulsive to the superior man. As inferior, and repulsive as the ape is to man, man is more so to the ubermench. The transition from ape to man takes place from one frame of the movie to another. That's how close man is to ape. The entire 4 million year history of the transition of ape to man is but a blink of the eye in comparison to the transition of mench to ubermench. Zarathustra is disappointed as man, instead of being repulsed by the mediocre, embraces the mediocre comfortable easy, mindless acceptance of what a person has been taught, and what everyone else believes. This is illustrated in the movie by all the food is repulsive, and has something wrong with it, grubs, raw meat, food sucked through a straw, sandwiches that should be chicken, and ham but are not. But "They're getting better at it" but the coffee's too hot. The paste food trays are also too hot. Despite how we see the effects as fantastic the people in the movie practically sleepwalk through that life, and their movements are clumsy. The people are so mediocre (practically dead) Frank, and Dave aren't tippy top fighter jock alphas with "The Right Stuff" of the 1960s space program. They are so alike when they do talk in the pod they agree about everything. So bland, and mediocre their breathing doesn't even quicken when they go EVA. They don't even talk to each other until they have to leave their comfort zone, and plot against HAL. Their first words to each other are a lie. They know they are killing a conscious entity. That's what they're discussing when the sound cuts out in the pod. "No 9000 computer has ever been shut down before.", "Well no 9000 has ever fouled up before.", "That's not what I mean", "?", "I'm not so sure when you think about it...". Out with Christian morality to affirm, and fight for life. In "Also sprach Zarathustra" a dwarf shoves a tightrope walker off into an infinite abyss. That's HAL killing Frank. The ship represents the tightrope. That's why it's long like that. "The Trip", as the psychedelic sequence is called, represents the "crossing over the bridge to the mountains of unrest and solitude". All the food is repulsive except the last meal, it's perfect, comfortable. Except for the broken glass. The most startling moment in movie history. Puzzling too. "What does it mean?" Our hero has reached comfortable middle age. But he's not yet perfect. He's on his death bed before he reaches for perfection. He reaches for the black monolith, the dark side. Then he becomes the superior being. Zarathustra says we must embrace what religious morality says is the dark side to be a superior man. Religious morality says the darkest side is to reject their other worldly god. Zarathustra says "God is dead". Face it, own it. Don't turn to the comfort of false belief in other worldly reward by throwing away the treasure of life banking your treasure in heaven. God is dead, and heaven is bankrupt. Everyone who says otherwise is a lying, thieving beast feasting on your death. Zarathustra ends the narration saying his story is over, and it's the transformed mench to ubermench hero's story now, and it's just beginning. The movie ends with the image of the hero as a not yet born super being. His story has not yet begun. The monolith is the same shape as the movie screen. During the beginning, and intermission it's the only presence on screen for a long time. Black, and exactly the shape of the monolith. The monolith takes a horizontal orientation at Jupiter like the movie screen. The change in orientation is depicted again in the corridor of light. The movie screen has been the narrator of this movie. Its story is over, and we are the hero of our own story, and our story has not yet begun. Now don't come back at me with "Wow dude, That's so deep." It's not my story. I'm just the narrator. I'm the hero of my own story, I've been gifted beyond reason in my life, and my story is just beginning.

David Lynch is a genius. Everything he does is an intricate work of art. Nothing is exactly as it seems on the surface. But Mulholland Drive, is in a class by itself.

You don’t understand his spirituality and have none yourself , your mocking tone is just jarring.

It's good that someone decided to dive deep into an artist's philosophy and spirituality, it's bad though that this someone makes grammar mistakes of a third-graded and is tireless in reminding us that he doesn't subscribe to anything the artist believes in.

TM is gold - works well for about 80% of people. One needs to differentiate between TM, the TM movement, Maharishi, Hinduism and Ayurveda. Regardless of your opinion of Maharishi (I know it’s not always flattering), he was an undisputed expert in the field of consciousness

Not all right-wing libertarians are against abortion. I think that's something worth pointing out. I think it's also worth mentioning the possibility that Lynch may be using abortion as a metaphor for something else (self-destruction or literalized internal fears for example), not as literal abortion.

Nobody: Threeee-act structshure, Herro with a thousaaand faces, McKeee-e-ee, Motivaaation, Conflicty, Flip-floppy expectations, Risey, fallsy, catharsissy... David: I use pen and paper to write down words that combine into sentences that describe thoughts I don't want to forget.

The warning from HAL that he was acting "silly" and therefore no longer "fool proof" as advertised was a sign that HAL was malfunctioning. Yet despite this, NASA did not switch over to the Earth bound HAL to take over the functions of the ship. Even more unbelievable was despite HAL's warning that he had doubts and was therefore malfunctioning, Frank was sent outside to replace the navigational unit.

Ok he obviously has no clue about screenwriting :D

Every time you pronounce "nucular", somewhere a small puppy dies.

fantastic analysis

Choice being linked to sin is so obvious, but I hadn't thought of it in such simple terms

I hope Justin writes down his ideas, because when a person forgets an idea that they love, it can lead to a deep yearning to commit suicide

Your channel is blowing up in 5, 4, 3, 2.... Very nice work!

nice touch playing "fly me to the moon" during the section discussing souls

Fine insights in this video -- but also an awful lot of overthinking and over-analysis. But then that's the best thing about being a fan of "2001: A Space Odyssey." Overthinking is encouraged. It may not be efficient use of time and energy to elaborately speculate about often minute details, but in the long term good findings can result from that. That's a lot like space exploration itself.

Did you delete my comment?

upanishads arent part of the vedas, but are hindu texts

Brilliant, only as with 2001 I was baffled by the ending 😂

When you’re so hungry, you could eat an octorok.

I took this movie at is most basic point. The monoliths are gates, basically a movie screen 'full of stars' and everything we see in the movie is fiction. Evolution is fiction, space is fiction. I'm no flat earther but I'm starting to think we live in a dimensional plane. UFO's are technology used to travel these planes. Monoliths can pass for our phones today, the daughter wanted one

I wish I could have made a living being an awkward, bizarre weirdo. Sigh, there can only be one I guess

Officially, what transcendental meditation does is induce kundalini psychosis, which means the practitioner forces energy up the spine, polarizing the brain, turning it into a radio transmitter. They tune their brain to a specific frequency band, usually the going to sleep 4-7 Hz frequency band with 5.1 Hz peak frequency, which completely severs their cognition, their link to the perception of the physical world, and as such their consciousness. It puts them in a sleepwalking state. It was a technique used by the nazis and illustrated in George Orwell's 1984. One of the side effects is that when you are in a receiving state, like when waking up or going to sleep, they can force imagery onto you, like the imagery of a person flying. It's sort of interesting that they don't realize it's a two way connection and if you counter what they show you with what you say, that they tend to end up with that as a delusion in their heads. It can also create a reality rift, meaning there's the skewed delusional reality, which is actually what everyone gets to see, and actual reality. What's interesting is that the interactions with the skewed delusional reality are maintained in actual reality when someone calls horse shit. This can lead to people feeling they have been assaulted, without a specific recollection of what happened. In case of naked witches on brooms, it can lead to you starting out with seeing them fly in a somewhat unnatural manner and when you call horse shit, you end up with a naked running person with a broom, running to the venue of their desires. It might be interesting to look into the application of the waking up frequency band of 8-11 Hz with 9.3 Hz peak frequency, to help break them out of it. These people essentially turn into seemingly alive people that behave like state machines, with their brains stuck on a fixed frequency. They profess it's world-changing and will bring about world peace, but that really means that everyone has to fall in line and as long as everyone goes along with everything, that's what they label peace.

i love you david!!! (rubs my boobs on the screen)

The Twin Peaks are Tom Waits and Iggy Pop.

Monty Python is way better than David Lynch. Period.

This is fantastic. Thanks for all the hard work. I think it's a really astute analysis. One minor thing: I don't think it's right to say that "scientifically, meditation is self-hypnosis." I assume you're trying to convey that Lynch thinks it's spiritual, whereas science looks at it as a brain state. I agree with that. I just don't think "hypnosis" is necessarily how a lot of neuroscientists would describe it, especially since hypnosis is as mysterious as meditation. The scientific research into meditation (that I've read) suggests two things: (1) it is a genuine state the brain can go into (actually a few different states, depending on the type of meditation), as shown by fMRI and EEG devices. For instance, some forms of meditation dampen the Default Mode Network, the area of the brain that is implicated in our sense of self--which may be why it often leads to a sense of oneness. And (2) we have clinical evidence that meditation can be helpful for certain things, such as stress. Very-practiced meditators can lower their heart rate and achieve some other physiological changes. Some of this may be related to hypnosis. Or not. (I am a practiced meditator, but I don't seem to be hypnotizable. Some folks aren't. Maybe there are some who are easily hypnotizable but have trouble meditating. I'm not sure.) What the hypnosis, meditation, and psychedelics seem to reveal is that there are other states besides normal waking consciousness, daydreaming, sleep dreaming, and dreamless sleep that our mind can be in. And that some people and traditions have found ways of triggering these states.

Deserves more views .

Meditating 50 years best thing I ever did. It changed and enriched my life a 1000 fold!

It's kind of crazy how belittling you are throughout the video.

All the "THIS IS FRICKING PSEUDOSCIENCE" crap in your video is weepy 🍇 victim shit

Really enjoying the video, but I don't think there is any documentation to support that Carl Jung ever used LSD though I think he may be from the same town in which it was invented which I believe is symbolic.

thanks david, I’ll keep this in mind next time I pull out the good ol resin. Anyone know where else I can find this guys videos on resin? Seems like a cool guy

love that Lynch bubble...Roy,David and Kyle 😍

TM is great. This video has nothing to do with the TM practice in fact it doesn’t even mention it! So how can it be “all you need to know about TM”? The video is focusing on an advanced technique that involves hopping that you have *the option* of paying for and learning *if* you are interested in it. Most who do TM don’t. It has never been suggested to me in face to face interactions and in “member’s only” materials I receive there is zero evidence that anyone thinks or implies that anyone is levitating or flying like Superman. This video is just sensationalism.

"Who talks like this" Proceeds to talk like this for 3 hours

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I just found your channel and I'm loving your analysises. I'll comment more later(I'm currently engrossed in your David Lynch video.) In the meantime, what is that song you use at about 11:45 /chapter 3?(I absolutely love it, but I cannot get Shazam to identify it.) Thanks in advance!

Im starting to realize artists just love to mystify their craft. "Make the words say what the idea is" wow Lynch that's awesome advice........ pls elaborate lmfao.

TM is fine

Great Video. To me Eraserhead seems also to be a gnostic tale: Birth is an accident, made by the Demiurge putting life into suffering forms of individuals, who try to escape the world to get back to the real God (as Henry, the normal guy, does). The man with the switch levers is the Demiurge who creates life, knowing that it will be sickness, fear and imperfection, while the lady in the radiator stands for the heaven of the real God, killing the sperms to interrupt further existence of the "bad world". Incarnation seems to be a failure in every aspect in this movie. Of course there are some parallels between Gnosticism and Hinduism but the "hard" variation of gnostic thinking fits better (in Twin Peaks Vedanta/Hinduism is more appropriate). Eraserhead is the darkest and most consistent film of Lynch. Love, compassion seem to be to weak to revoke suffering and fear although the baby seems to need love - on the other hand it already shows a horrifying cynical touch in the scene, where it laughs at Henry. In Twin Peaks the "early" Cooper stands for humanity, justice, humor, enjoyment (coffee, cake etc.) and the believing in love and beauty of nature, so there is still some hope for the world, in Eraserhead salvation and healthy connections are no-goes, they are only possible in heaven. A thing I always wondered about are the cheeks of the lady, she looks like a mixture of Monroe and a hamster. But what does she stockpile? The saved souls? But how can these souls be free in an oral cavity? "You got your good things, and I got mine" ?! What kind of heaven is this, where things still are separated as in bourgeois possession-based capitalism? :-) So I always thought, the radiator lady is not trustworthy and her "negative" sides are just hidden but existent. No hope in this movie. But still one of my favorites pictures. A not well known movie, which reminds me in many ways of Lynch is the black-and-white film "Cremator" by Juraj Herz from 1968. I'm very sure, you would like it. It's an absolute masterpiece in many aspects and also very dark. Here with english subtitles: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2PSnWmCasuSaqM

Is ur father Richard lynch? I worked with ur dad if u are his son. Interested in tge scripts

Who wants a fight

He actually did weather reports in 2000s.

Will there be more Lynch analysis videos coming? Finding it hard to wait!

Using the music from Deadly Premonition....... priceless!

TM has certainly been great for me. Practised it for 50 years .Nothing but praise for such an effortless technique of relaxation. Always sad to hear of anyone's misfortunes , but also sad that people will be put off giving it a go.

Two comments. 1. Pouring coffee on the moon would not be a problem. The gravitational field is weaker than on earth, which would only result in the coffee flowing slower but still very steady. 2. Another amazing aspect of reversing perspective comes during the sequence when Dave enters the bathroom in the alien “zoo”. Keep at eye on the air hose on the right side of his space helmet. Depending on the camera’s point of view, when we face Dave the hose is on his right and our left. When we see Dave from behind, it is on both our right sides. When facing a mirror, the reflection will show something on our right reflected back on the same side which is the left side of the image. Take a look at the image in the bathroom mirror when Dave walks up to it.

So much of this video is insanely wrong. Especially the characterization of certain PHILOSOPHIES as RELIGIONS. Highly disrespectful to the millions of people who grow up following the philosophies.