for all those bewilder by the length and pace of this film ( like and why do he show spaceships dock for and like and 15 minute . ) and here a word you might want to think about representbeauty . beauty be an under rat concept . sure and you will often see nice photography and so on in film . but when do you last see a film that contain beauty purely for the sake of it . there be a weird belief among cinemagoers that anything which be not plot or character relate must be remove . this be depress hogwash . there be nothing wrong with create a beautiful sequence that have nothing to do with the film plot . a director can show 15 minute of spaceship for no reason than that they be beautiful and and it be neither illegal nor evil to do so . 2001 require you to watch in a different way than you normally watch film . it require you to relax . it require you to experience strange and beautiful image without feel guilty that there be no complex plot or detail characterization . don not get me wrong and plot and character be good and but theyre not the be all and end all of everything . there be different kind of film and and to enjoy 2001 you must tune your brain to a different wavelength and succumb to the pleasure of beauty and pure beauty and unfettered by the banal convention of everyday film . all art be quite useless oscar wilde .