He was also, perhaps, too pure a creator and reckless a citizen to survive unscathed. Read full review. Kevin Thomas. A dazzlingly imaginative work with awesome production values and special effects that bear comparison to those of " David Sterritt. Stands with the greatest science-fiction movies ever made. Jonathan Rosenbaum. Tarkovsky's eerie mystic parable is given substance by the filmmaker's boldly original grasp of film language and the remarkable performances by all the principals.
Roger Ebert. Routinely called Tarkovsky's reply to Kubrick's "" -- But Kubrick's film is outward, charting man's next step in the universe, while Tarkovsky's is inward, asking about the nature and reality of the human personality. Staff Not Credited. Slow, but ravishingly beautiful and charged with a real poignancy. The most pop film the great Russian filmmaker ever made. User Score. Write a Review. User Reviews.
Angel Oct 26, I watched this movie many many times, and yet I find something new why ever would anyone give it a bad rating? I watched this movie many many times, and yet I find something new every single time I watch it. Reading it is just as pleasurable as watching, we need more talents like Lem … Expand. I was unemployed the 1st winter after graduating college and decided to watch foreign films to see the difference.
The standard by which I rate films is strongly influenced by masterpieces such as "Solaris. See the original and let yourself open up to a movie that although slow, is paced for you to contemplate rather than merely watch. Would I watch it again? Only if showing it to someone who has been blinded by the myriad amounts of garbage that is mass produced by Hollywood for the insatiable appetite of American dvd junkies. There are emotional and philosophical "spoilers" here.
If you have not seen the movie and want to experience it yourself, do not read past this sentence. Recently, I re-watched Solaris, for the 4th time. Originally I was looking forward mainly to wonderful dreamy interludes, childhood There are emotional and philosophical "spoilers" here. Originally I was looking forward mainly to wonderful dreamy interludes, childhood memories, reminiscent photos, multi-layered video recordings, epic paintings And I was prepared to be stressed for the rest of the duration.
But this time I found a more complete picture. Watching in solitude, with undivided attention, it seems that it took as much and as many times to truly appreciate this film in all of its facets.
Even though it disturbed me several times, on a level very hard to locate, I was able to follow with little distraction.
The movie is alienating from beginning to end. Referring to YoonC's fantastic user review: Solaris first recalls the world, and then takes us away from it - we get to see human society and human personality as something fascinating, but often mixed with disgust. We are thrown back to a distant scientific objectivity, perceiving human beings alien-like, while in fact helpless. This way, Tarkovsky fulfilled a very important theme of Stanislav Lem's, one of the dominant threads throughout the oeuvre of one of the most accomplished writers and critics who ever lived.
When we look into the blackness behind the station's windows, we are in space. It is the wrong place to be. Driven by a desire to understand the living ocean of Solaris, trying to establish some kind of communication, the crew despairs over their failure. But in truth, the ocean shows what human communication, in the broadest possible meaning of the word, truly is: not a means primarily to gain knowledge or to organize society, to understand the universe or to remember the past; but a process that evokes - and fortifies - and varies - images of ourselves and our environments.
These images are our self's pulse. To witness them being stripped of any rational meaning is devastating - at least, for compulsively rational minds. Tarkovsky goes his own way treating Kelvin's development. The film is a meditative psychodrama set almost entirely on a space station orbiting Solaris, adding flashbacks to the previous experiences of its main characters on Earth.
Clooney's character struggles with the questions of Solaris' motivation, his beliefs and memories, and reconciling what was lost with an opportunity for a second chance. Clinical psychologist Dr. Chris Kelvin is approached by emissaries for DBA, a corporation operating a space station orbiting the planet Solaris, who relay a message sent from his scientist friend Dr. Gibarian requests that Kelvin come to the station to help understand an unusual phenomenon, but is unwilling to explain more.
DBA is unsure how to proceed, as the mission to study Solaris has been sidetracked and none of the astronauts want to return home. In addition, DBA has lost contact with the security patrol recently dispatched to the station. Kelvin agrees to a solo mission to go to Solaris as a last attempt to bring the crew home safely. Upon arriving at Solaris Station, Kelvin learns that Gibarian has committed suicide and most of the crew have either died or disappeared under bizarre circumstances. Both surviving crew members, Snow and Dr.
Gordon, are reluctant to explain the situation at hand. Once alone in his quarters, Kelvin dreams about his dead wife Rheya — reliving when they first met and some of their most romantic and intimate moments. He awakens shocked and terrified to encounter Rheya, apparently alive again beside him in bed, and he leads her into an escape pod and jettisons it into space. Kelvin confides his actions to Snow and comes to understand that replicas of the crew's loved ones have been mysteriously appearing.
When Rheya manifests a second time Kelvin lets her stay, but she admits she does not feel human; her memories feel artificial, in that she lacks the emotional attachment that comes with actually having lived them.
Kelvin, Rheya, Snow and Gordon meet to discuss the situation and Gordon informs Rheya regarding what Kelvin did to her previous replica. Rheya leaves the meeting horrified and Kelvin confronts Gordon, who in turn chastises him for getting emotionally involved with something that is not real and may pose a threat to human beings. Later, during a dream, Kelvin questions a replica of Gibarian as to what Solaris' motives are for providing the manifestations, but is told "there are no answers, only choices.
Gordon reveals that she has an apparatus which can permanently destroy a replica but Chris objects to using it on Rheya.
He begins ingesting a chemical stimulant to stay awake in order to monitor Rheya. Kelvin eventually falls asleep and Rheya approaches Gordon who destroys her with the apparatus as she has done for all replicas who have requested her to do so.
Kelvin confronts Gordon who maintains she merely facilitated in assisted suicide and only wants the preservation of the humans. Kelvin and Gordon then discover the body of Snow stashed away in a ceiling vent and realize that the Snow they have been interacting with is a replica. Snow admits to being a replica and explains that upon being dreamed into existence, he was attacked by his creator and thus killed the "original Snow" in self-defense.
The Snow replica tells them that repeat usage of the apparatus has drained the ship's fuel cell reactor, making a return trip to Earth impossible. Man needs man! Sign In. Original title: Solyaris. Play trailer Drama Mystery Sci-Fi. Director Andrei Tarkovsky.
Top credits Director Andrei Tarkovsky. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Official Trailer. Photos Top cast Edit. Vera Sumenova. Andrei Tarkovsky. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. The Solaris mission has established a base on a planet that appears to host some kind of intelligence, but the details are hazy and very secret. After the mysterious demise of one of the three scientists on the base, the main character is sent out to replace him.
He finds the station run-down and the two remaining scientists cold and secretive. When he also encounters his wife who has been dead for ten years, he begins to appreciate the baffling nature of the alien intelligence.
Let us take you with us to Solaris, planet of mystery, embodiment of man's latent conflict with the unknown.
Man, face to face with his conscience, and with his past. Did you know Edit. However, Tarkovsky himself reportedly considered it the least favorite of the films he directed. Goofs At the moment when the station attains zero gravity, the candlestick passes floating in the air, with the flames burning the same as in earth. Actually, with zero gravity, the fire doesn't go upward, candle flames would rather be spherical and very weak blue.
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