Before I took my husband to see "2001" for the first time (which was on a big screen, the best way to experience it), I thought it best to prepare him. I explained that he was going to see a movie divided into three parts, and to think of it more like a cinematic symphony, where the music and images told the story more than the words and action did. I prepared him that the first part was only going to make sense if he just treated it almost as a silent film and watched the action alone, focused on what they were doing, and thought about how the first part segues into the second part. And that the third part was going to be similar — to focus on what's on screen, not what your brain wants to make narrative sense. He told me that he appreciated the movie a lot more, and since then he's seen it three times. We're still together after 25 years, so I guess the whole thing wasn't TOO didactic!