In this scene, I'll examine a scene from '2001: A Space Odyssey' that involves Dave Bowman manually reentering the ship.
Dave Bowman is left with no choice but to leave the pod without his helmet and re-enter Discovery 1 manual emergency airlock.
Man's over-reliance and technology will lead to our extinction and at some point in the future, there will have to be a reset where man reclaims his life from AI. That's what this scene represents which is why Bowman has to MANUALLY open the pod to reenter the ship.
Bowman is a fetus leaving the security of its mother's womb (which in this case is the technology inside of the pod itself) and being thrust into a new world of knowledge; the signal from the monolith discovered on the Moon has affected both HAL and Bowman. The pod with its life-support systems is like a mother’s womb when he literally explodes violently from the pod into the new environment much like how oxygen explodes into a newborn’s lungs after being full of amniotic fluid for 9 months. Again, the theme of the film is rebirth and growth, following the evolution of the apes and, later, Dave's evolution to Star-Child.
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