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The remainder of the film deals with the voyage of the ship ''Discovery'' to Jupiter. During the trip, the two astronauts actively manning the ship begin to suspect that their artificial intelligence support computer, named HAL, is malfunctioning. HAL begins to exhibit paranoid behavior as its actions are questions, and attacks the crew in apparent self-defense. HAL is disabled, and the sole surviving astronaut arrives at Jupiter to find a significantly larger monolith in orbit around the planet. He takes a shuttle-pod and lands on the surface of the monolith, at which point he undergoes a strange, hallucinatory transformation and is reborn as a god-like, embryonic entity referred to as the "Star Child".
The remainder of the film deals with the voyage of the ship ''Discovery'' to Jupiter. During the trip, the two astronauts actively manning the ship begin to suspect that their artificial intelligence support computer, named HAL, is malfunctioning. HAL begins to exhibit paranoid behavior as its actions are questions, and attacks the crew in apparent self-defense. HAL is disabled, and the sole surviving astronaut arrives at Jupiter to find a significantly larger monolith in orbit around the planet. He takes a shuttle-pod and lands on the surface of the monolith, at which point he undergoes a strange, hallucinatory transformation and is reborn as a god-like, embryonic entity referred to as the "Star Child".
==Significance==
The film is considered a classic of the science fiction genre for several reasons. Most notably, it was the most realistic depiction of space travel in cinema to that date. Meticulous detail was put into the design and filming of the spacecraft, whose actions were realistic (no sounds in space, and their movements followed the laws of physics). Interior spaceflight sequences were captured imaginatively, particularly the zero-G environments on the various ships.
The film is also regarded as being art-like, with its use of classical music in the soundtrack to set mood, and the lack of a specific narrative allowing each viewer to interpret the story in their own way.