Far in the alien star, close to the bottom of my heart.
The hidden secrets of the human heart gradually unfolded on Solaris. The wife who had been dead for ten years stood in front of her again, with the needle eye left by suicide on her arm. The male protagonist avoided it at first, because reason told his wife in front of him that this was not true. It's just that Solaris, who is a living body, is a "guest" that is reproduced according to the male protagonist's consciousness, so the male protagonist sends the "wife" into space with a rocket, and the "wife" appears next to him again. By recalling his wife's suicide, gradually, the male protagonist has no fear, only shame and remorse. When the biologist who was also on the space station proposed to dissect this "guest", the male protagonist refused, and he had transferred his love for his deceased wife to the replicator. And the "guest" also experienced extreme pain and confusion when she learned that she was just a replica, which stemmed from her self-awareness that she realized that she was not her physical self, but that she was composed of neutrinos. Yes, she's not really human. In the end, the "wife", like the real wife, chose to commit suicide.
Under the cloak of science fiction, the film expresses the most fundamental philosophical myths that human beings have been searching for since their birth. How can the spiritual self exist independently of the material self? If there is a mirror that can look into the heart, is what appears in the mirror an illusion or reality? Between reason, science, curiosity, endless outreach exploration, and the revelation of emotion, love, piety, and the secrets of the human mind, where will people choose to go? Even how to define human and non-human? To borrow a Western proverb: If a thing looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it is a duck. Unfortunately, the proverb uses only inductive reasoning, not a complete proof. But emotionally, the author is more willing to believe that every "wife" is a wife herself, a new continuation of her life.
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