This is good work (I refer to V2, I havne’t seen V1).
The tone seems right now that the film as been freed of most of Speilberg’s treacle, tonally more what I think Kubrick might have come up with. The storytelling is mostly tight and obviously a lot of thought went into this edit.
Technically it’s good, too.
I have to agree with White43 about the too-abrupt ending, however. A much more fitting but equally downbeat ending would have been David underwater in the helicopter, with his imaginary Blue Fairy at last.
