Solaris is a mirror

Ambrose 2022-03-25 09:01:08

"Solaris" is a work in which the old tower touches the sci-fi genre. Although the old tower's movie is already mysterious enough, the old tower may play his own mood in the genre, so that the audience is watching this dull movie. , needs a lot of concentration, needs to force himself into the world of the old tower, not a flattering type movie, giving the audience visual pleasure, he is like a grand philosophical masterpiece, and needs to be treated seriously, the test is the audience's recognition knowledge level. At this point, the relationship between audience and creator is completely reversed, but it's not tiresome. As the younger generation, we should pay our respects to this great work, not only because it is after "2001", it subverts the genre motif of science fiction movies again, and in the same way, in the context of the universe, it returns to man himself again, Give the most precise definition of man.

In the movie, Solaris, as a mysterious existence, is the place that scientists want to explore the most. Unexpectedly, after logging in, the strange things that happened in Solaris also made people feel more about it. Because of complex emotions, that is, behind each individual emotion, this enigmatic planet has become the wait-and-see of people's own desires.

From the beginning to the end, the old tower did not give Solaris a clear explanation, but carefully used the observer's mouth to describe the form of Solaris. From the appearance point of view, Solaris is the mirror of the universe. The purpose of its existence is only to project and imitate. It does not have any idea or nature. Like an intermediary, it only has the effect of transmission and amplification. As a quantized concept, after being magnified by the human mind, it performs a one-way transmission function, materializing the idea and presenting it in front of the mind itself, which caused the former pilot to fly in Solaris. What I saw, and what Kyle encountered on the space station. But Solaris is not just a mirror. When the old tower shows the planet, it combines river water and lake surface to create the surface of Solaris. This also shows that, in fact, Solaris is only a mirror. It is a superficial phenomenon. It is more like a lake. Under the mirror, there are bottomless chaos and abyss. If you want to investigate the meaning of the materialized entity, you will only get something like "fishing for the moon in the sea". ending. On Solaris, everything is vanity, nothing has any meaning.

Therefore, when scientists came to the Solaris space station, they collapsed when they encountered a "mirror reflection" situation, which was nothing more than psychologist Kyle. The reason for the collapse is that after revealing their most primitive thoughts, the collapse of personal morals and social concepts cannot support spiritual integrity, and people then choose to escape. To put it bluntly, desire is the main driving force for people to move forward. The existence of the id is far beyond the ego and the superego. After piercing this reality, people cannot continue to survive. The so-called "original sin" mentality is probably the case. Looking closely, it is more than that to show the fragility of people. When dealing with unknown new things, people often want to protect the original balance from being destroyed. , unless such "new things" are too powerful, people will look for the direction of communication, which is what Kyle and old pilots communicated: that is to say, we tend to kill first and communicate later. This is only seen as a large group of human beings, and when the group is refined into individuals, we will find that the many contradictions between people cannot be expressed in words. In the film, the mutual suspicion of the three scientists confirms this. point. Such contradictions will cause disputes and become the fuse of war because of the self-inflation induced by time, even if everyone ends up in the same way. In the process of scientific exploration, the dilemma between science and morality will gradually lead to conflicts that will destroy their own personality. From the above point of view, in Laota's films, how fragile and sad people are.

In fact, what really attracts attention in the movie is Kyle's wife, not only because she is the only important woman in the movie, very temperamental, but also plays an important role in the interpretation of "Solaris". However, the arrangement of the old tower for him is indeed a complete tragedy, and it is the most "low-level" myth of human creation. The tragedy that created Harley lies in the almost perverted "love" of men. This involves the cognitive level of the "machine" identity in the movie. The mixing of Harry and Kyle's mother in Kyle's dream is enough to show that Kyle is vague about Harley's timing, and even his "love" Still, he can't be sure, which makes me, Harley, only know what Kyle knows after being projected by Solaris. At the same time, she lacks self-judgment, and she can only enrich herself from Kyle's words. So, women on the space station are just the product of male fantasies, unable to determine the identity of the subject, and this does not only happen on the space station of Solaris, where Solaris only reinforces this effect, women as male visual desire The center of the call and the calling mechanism are all closely related to the relationship between the sexes. As a "clone" that is slowly being filled, Harry's wish is what Kyle expects. After the calling mechanism is established, Kyle cannot accept the events that violated logic caused by his own evil thoughts. The wish became: to eliminate her own thoughts in order to maintain the moral principle, it can be seen as a purification of mutation, and Harley needs to implement Kyle's thoughts because of love, so her ultimate goal becomes the same as Kyle's , is to kill himself. So, at the end of the story, when the male mind is purified, the woman removes the traces of existence. In fact, jump out of the movie and observe its life carefully, and you will find that women like Harley are by your side.

In the world of recreated Solaris, as a purified environment, only father and son (male) are left, and the only pure emotion that still holds connection here is nostalgia, so hometown and father constitute Kyle’s paradise,” The link of killing the father" is broken, the absence of women strengthens the dominance of men, and the collapse of moral values ​​will once again be firmly established in this alienated world of Solaris. This is not a peach blossom garden, this is the restoration of old ideas. In this cycle again and again, people come back to life without progress. Such a concept has something in common with "Cloud Atlas". "Cloud Atlas" is too simple. several grades. Again, this work is much brighter than 1968's "2001", which is about evolution. In the old tower's "Solaris", we don't progress with the passage of time, we just get stuck in the ring, embarrassing ourselves, and can't be killed. Therefore, what Laota sees is only the gloom of human nature and the despair of cocooning oneself.

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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.