Diary entries forSolaris
Solaris
Pretty great. Slow, methodical and patient, Solaris is about being a real human being. Loss, love and what it means to truly know someone, let alone knowing oneself. Like all his work this feels much like a poem rather than a film, and the story it tells is for you to decide.
Solaris
In The Boxxd '25 - Semana #16: Película que involucra viajes espaciales. Un mágnum opus de la ciencia ficción en general y del realizador Andreï Tarkovsky.
Solaris
Solaris is slow, philosophical, and deeply atmospheric, focusing more on memory and emotion than on traditional sci-fi ideas. The pacing is deliberate, but it allows the themes of love, guilt, and human consciousness to really sink in. Overall, Solaris is a thoughtful and haunting film that rewards patience.
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We go to space looking for answers, and end up facing questions we avoided on Earth. Not first contact—self-contact.
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After watching Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, one of my coworkers told me that I should watch Solaris and see which of the two great sci-fi films that I prefer. She happens to prefer Solaris to Kubrick's film, stating that Kubrick is too cold to make a great science fiction film. While Solaris is an amazing film, I personally still feel that 2001 is the better film. That being said, Solaris still is an absolutely stunning film. Science-fiction is a genre that truly has no boundaries. This genre tests what humans can do, might do, and most likely will do. Solaris explores human emotion on a level that many films don't even scratch the surface of. This film questions what exactly makes a person human, and whether memories of a person make you human, or rather figments of your imagination when you're gone. Tarkovsky has yet again created a film that is so philosophically deep, it will take me many viewings to truly find what he was saying. This film definitely is a lot easier to get through than the other Tarkovsky film that I've seen, Stalker, but that doesn't take away from the fact that this film truly is one of the great science fiction films. Solaris certainly is a film that will need to be seen multiple times to get a full understanding, but this time truly blew me away. I really do need to watch more of Tarkovsky's films, since the two that I have seen have been absolutely amazing. While this film is very original and is without a doubt a masterpiece, I still would choose 2001: A Space Odyssey when watching classic science-fiction.
Solaris
Besok keknya harus nonton 2001: A Space Odyssey deh
Solaris
when a man is happy, the meaning of life and other eternal themes rarely interest him. these questions should be asked at the end of one’s life. man does not know the day he is going to die, it is for this reason man is in such a hurry to know everything, to gain as much knowledge as he can. do i have the right to turn down even an imagined possibility of contact with this ocean which my race has been trying to understand for decades? should i remain here? among things and objects we both touched? which still bear the memory of our breath? what for? in the hope that she’ll return? but i don’t harbor this hope. the only thing left to me is to wait. i don’t know what for. new miracles? the awe of the unknown, the deeper internal struggle, desire and need that lies within man that goes beyond the quest for knowledge itself.
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It's slow, very slow, and I started to feel the long runtime towards the end. However, it never felt boring. The storytelling is compelling and the cinematography and the visuals are great. The plot in itself is not the most intricate thing ever (it can still be a tiny bit confusing without enough attention), but the themes it explores are really interesting. Been putting off watching Tarkovsky for while because of his characteristically slow paced and long films, but I realize now that was a mistake.
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Claire Denis once said that space films could have only been made in America, Russia, and, more recently, China. As Kubrick's 2001 is to America, Solaris is to Russia. To be put in a world where I thought it was my own, its slow pace, the lackluster details of a home by a pond, pale misty shrubbery, take up the whole screen, the whole of your eyes. And when we get to the spacecraft in the latter half of the film, it's the same. Dull mundanity. And so the metaphysical marvel at what would be the difference between life on Earth and life elsewhere sprigs the questions with the mysterious re-appearance of our main character's wife, and we learn the truth, and what does one do with a truth when you're so far from home? When home looks back at you like old times? If I were to choose between 2001 and Solaris, I'd go with 2001 for the same themes Solaris explores but with much more heft, visual aesthetics, and velocity.
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Un increíble baúl de preguntas existenciales es sacado aflote a medida que la ciencia ficción y el amor justifica la experiencia de Solaris, un inquietante y fulminante film que logra sacar a relucir el pensamiento existencialista de Tarakovsky de manera ejemplar y fascinante.
