Diary Entry forSolaris
Pretty great. Slow, methodical and patient, Solaris is about being a real human being. Loss, love and what it means to truly know someone, let alone knowing oneself. Like all his work this feels much like a poem rather than a film, and the story it tells is for you to decide.
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Solaris
In The Boxxd '25 - Semana #16: Película que involucra viajes espaciales. Un mágnum opus de la ciencia ficción en general y del realizador Andreï Tarkovsky.
Solaris
Solaris is slow, philosophical, and deeply atmospheric, focusing more on memory and emotion than on traditional sci-fi ideas. The pacing is deliberate, but it allows the themes of love, guilt, and human consciousness to really sink in. Overall, Solaris is a thoughtful and haunting film that rewards patience.
Solaris
We go to space looking for answers, and end up facing questions we avoided on Earth. Not first contact—self-contact.
Solaris
After watching Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, one of my coworkers told me that I should watch Solaris and see which of the two great sci-fi films that I prefer. She happens to prefer Solaris to Kubrick's film, stating that Kubrick is too cold to make a great science fiction film. While Solaris is an amazing film, I personally still feel that 2001 is the better film. That being said, Solaris still is an absolutely stunning film. Science-fiction is a genre that truly has no boundaries. This genre tests what humans can do, might do, and most likely will do. Solaris explores human emotion on a level that many films don't even scratch the surface of. This film questions what exactly makes a person human, and whether memories of a person make you human, or rather figments of your imagination when you're gone. Tarkovsky has yet again created a film that is so philosophically deep, it will take me many viewings to truly find what he was saying. This film definitely is a lot easier to get through than the other Tarkovsky film that I've seen, Stalker, but that doesn't take away from the fact that this film truly is one of the great science fiction films. Solaris certainly is a film that will need to be seen multiple times to get a full understanding, but this time truly blew me away. I really do need to watch more of Tarkovsky's films, since the two that I have seen have been absolutely amazing. While this film is very original and is without a doubt a masterpiece, I still would choose 2001: A Space Odyssey when watching classic science-fiction.
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