I have long admired Tarkovsky. Finally watched the first tower guide film.
A poetic film, indeed. From the aquatic plants floating autonomously in the water at the beginning of the film, to the misty mist in the fields, to the six-minute long shot of the continuous shuttle of the Tokyo viaduct, and the messy water cups that were smashed by the raindrops in the pouring rain, all of them left a deep impression on the people.
This sci-fi movie, even if it was a work 50 years ago, still makes people think.
The deepest impression is that human beings need to break the limitations of their own cognition. Most sci-fi films, imagining aliens and exploring the universe cannot escape the inertia of human thinking. The most common thing is that although aliens are strangely long, they cannot escape the shape of human beings.
This is actually the limitation of human thinking. How do you know that the extraterrestrial intelligent creatures in the universe are all human-shaped, with a head, two eyes, and complete limbs?
And this film breaks this habitual thinking and regards the sea of Solaris as an intelligent body, as an extraterrestrial creature that humans want to know and understand. Intelligent creatures don't have to be in human form, an ocean, a tree, or even a planetary body can all be intelligent objects. According to Buddhism, it is impossible to take pictures, and that is the case.
In addition, take the artificial intelligence invented by humans now. In the future, when it develops to a certain stage, this stuff with wisdom is actually hiding in the data center, the software in rows of blade servers, the interface is ever-changing, and it is everywhere. You can call it the wisdom cloud, or the wisdom sea, but it is gone. Appearance, but wisdom.
In addition to the above point, there is another impressive point, that is, the means of extraterrestrial intelligence to deal with human beings.
Most science fiction films, describing the interstellar war, are unable to escape the material rut, and use high-precision weapons to destroy each other materially.
But this "Flying to Space" proposes another way, which is to deal with human beings from the spiritual, psychological and consciousness levels.
It recreates and simulates the most unbearable, unwilling to face, most guilt, and shameful side of human individual memory, that object, so that you can face it, make you tremble, and make your Cold sweat soaked through the clothes.
It forces you to face the depths of your heart, the dark corners of your human nature, the evil of human nature. In a way, this blow is more tormenting and unbearable than making you disappear from the body.
That's the genius of this film. Although there are no dazzling sci-fi pictures, these breakthroughs in philosophical thinking are even more admirable. It's no wonder that decades later, it still has a place in the sci-fi world.
After all, a classic is a classic. Although it is a bit difficult at first glance, it is worth watching again and again. A good film, you can't swallow the jujube whole and pass it over early.
A second brush is still necessary.
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