Solaris film review

Gwendolyn 2022-03-23 09:01:55

It seems to be a sci-fi movie, but in fact it has little to do with sci-fi. The discussion is still the consistent theme of Tarkovsky: the retrospect of memory and human love. From the silence of the male protagonist in front of the pond at the beginning, to returning to the pond at the end, the experience in the middle of Solaris seems to be a dream, and at the end of the dream, he returns to reality, nothing has changed, but it seems that nothing has changed. . Also contrasting the vast indifference of the universe with human emotions, Solaris gave me a convincing power that interstellar travel could not give. In Interstellar, love conquers all and saves humanity, it is so great, so pure, it will never fade. In Solaris, love is not so perfect. The hero always calls out to his mother in his dreams, but in reality he has not called his mother for many years; he loves his wife deeply, but because he always Ignoring his wife's feelings indirectly led to her suicide; he knelt down in tears before his father's knees, but he also ruthlessly burned all his things in front of his father. In this film, the most pure and flawless love is intertwined with the subtle and complex human nature. They are mixed with each other, and no one can completely deny the other. It is precisely because of this that the final confession of the male protagonist is so moving. It is not a hero. , The collapse of a statue, that is a person, a chaotic and weak person like us all living beings, after experiencing the repentance and epiphany after the retrospect of life, at this moment, the tower's love and compassion for human beings have reached the level that appeared in the lines. The realm of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. The dream and reality in the film are intertwined, the dream is so beautiful, the bonfire is burning in the dream, the snow is flying, the afternoon of childhood (maybe the afternoon) is so bright, but the reality is so cold, the astronauts in space are separated from each other. The deep estrangement made it almost impossible to communicate in depth, because the wife resurrected by the sea of ​​memory eventually returned to the sea of ​​memory. This reminds me of a saying by Seleka: "Love what you love, but don't forget what you love like the morning dew."

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Solaris quotes

  • Dr. Snaut: Don't tell me you haven't tried a rope or a hammer. Did you happen to throw the inkwell like Luther? No?

  • Kris Kelvin: What was that?

    Dr. Snaut: I don't know. Then again, we've managed to determine a few things. Who was it?

    Kris Kelvin: She died 10 years ago.

    Dr. Snaut: What you saw was the materialization of your conception of her. What was her name?

    Kris Kelvin: Hari.

    Dr. Snaut: Everything began after we started experimenting with radiation. Wehit the Ocean's surface with strong X-ray beams. But it - incidentally, consider yourself lucky. After all, she's part of your past. What if it had been something you had never seen before, but something you had thought or imagined?

    Kris Kelvin: I don't understand.

    Dr. Snaut: Evidently the Ocean responded to our heavy radiation with something else. It probed our minds and extracted something like islands of memory.