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 and aliens, but this novel is doubting such communication. This doubt is great. Maybe Tarkovsky saw this, or was in a landscape that technically could not represent the original, he was not so satisfied. But in my opinion, this is by far the best of the three I've seen (Rublov, Childhood). The last episode mainly explained the obstacles that the protagonist wanted to go to Solaris—the pilot and his parents.
The calm water plants are so attractive. The expressionless wife who appeared occasionally was the reunion of the two who concentrated on hints. The next episode mainly tells that the male protagonist met his dead wife on the planet Solaris, but at this time she was composed of another material - she was a product of the ocean. In the end, the wife was trapped in her own identity and chose to leave. And the male protagonist and his friends are finally willing to face the result of "ineffective communication" with Solaris, and even willing to believe that they may be witnessing the development of a high-level "god". In the film, in addition to the philosophical expressions with different brain holes, the more attractive, or the eternal topic in his films, is human thinking and thinking. Although his films do not speak of stream of consciousness, they are often able to concretize human consciousness.
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