Extended Reading
  • Benjamin 2022-04-22 07:01:27

    Great sci-fi movie, even with a philosophical undertone

    Solaris, 1972 film. Really a great work, I don't know why Tarkovsky was not satisfied with this movie.

    Maybe it's because the original book is also great. The theme of the original book is "communication". Ordinary science fiction will acquiesce that human beings can communicate with the universe...

  • Eloy 2022-03-22 09:01:48

    a dream

    After reading the original book and watching the film again, I only felt that Tarkovsky rebuilt a dream. He focused the film on people, family relationships related to people, love and self-seeking.

    Kelvin's feelings for his mother are never written in the book, but he puts the scene where his...

  • Vinnie 2022-03-24 09:01:52

    Under the rule of ritual aesthetics, the constant echo of external mystery and internal fear, as well as the thinking of self-esteem and foresight, are supreme. Completely convinced by the double action. "We have lost our sense of the universe" "The preservation of fundamental human truths requires mystery" "The secrets of happiness, death and love, a man to think about these is to know the date of his death, not knowing that date actually immortalizes us" "The only thing left for me is to wait"

  • Cindy 2021-12-08 08:01:42

    8/10. The old pagoda uses poetic power to insight into the earth and soul. The beginning of the chapter is from the lake beside the house to the legs of the characters in the thick fog and bushes/to the face, and the beautiful scenery of floating river mussels, brown horses running, and birds singing immediately switches to Close-up of ears, as if listening to life; monotonous and narrow Japanese highways and dark tunnels, when the male protagonist feels the love of his dead wife/family at the alienated space station, he kneels down in front of the door in the sun and rain to purify the shame of his homeland.

Solaris quotes

  • Kris Kelvin: To ask is always the desire to know. Yet the preservation of simple human truths requires mystery. The mysteries of happiness, death, and love. To think about it is to know one's day of death.

    Dr. Snaut: Maybe you're right, but try not to think about all that now.

    Kris Kelvin: Not knowing that day makes us practically immortal.

  • Nik Kelvin, otets Krisa Kelvina: These Solarists! They remind me of a bookkeeper, preparing his accounts.