What Kubrick has done in this movie is to AGREE with Nietzsche, but Fast-Forward the whole deal some 100 years to the American version of Ultimate Man, the entity Nietzsche complained about in rejecting his Übermensch concept.
So this movie takes the "God substitute" of the American Culture which is Space Fantasy [see my post here on Great God Gun - same horse folks] and creates a Jesus figure in Dave and simply has him "die for our sins".
More to come!
