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Ground control has been receiving strange transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to investigate, he experiences the strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his own consciousness. In Solaris, legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky creates a brilliantly original science-fiction epic that challenges our preconceived notions of love, truth, and humanity itself.
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Fantastic Science Fiction
This and "2001" are the two greatest sci-fi movies of all time.
Not as good as the George Clooney version
Overly long and pretty boring in places. Like many Russian film directors Tarkovsky seems to think that people staring off into the distance for minutes on end somehow gives a movie 'meaning' whereas (for me at least) it just makes me want to shout 'get on with it!!'
A Remarkable Film
Tarkovsky succeeds in using film to explore personhood excellently and deeply. Kubric is fabulously hampered and shallow in this regard.
For instance when Kelvin arrives at Solaris, he trips after getting out of his spacecraft. What a well-rounded acknowledgment of humanity. To be human is fragile, beautiful, terrible, mysterious, sorrowful. On the other hand with '2001 A Space Odyssey' we cannot progress deeper than the veneer of humanity. Women like machines walk perfectly, upside down, with special elegant shoes. The complexity of technology outweighs the complexity of humanity. It is a sterile film and remains so even after David Bowman encounters and is changed by the technology of the monolith. His expanding consciousness, though presented as a supreme good, has expanded at the expense of embodied relationship, warmth, and a more honest vision of the challenges of being human. There is a creative, psychological, even a spiritual acheivement in Tarkovsky's 'Solaris' that Kubric doesn't touch in '2001' .
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