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Solaris

Solaris (1972)

November. 11,1972
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8
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PG
| Drama Science Fiction Mystery

A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.

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Smartorhypo
1972/11/11

Highly Overrated But Still Good

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ShangLuda
1972/11/12

Admirable film.

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filippaberry84
1972/11/13

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

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Mandeep Tyson
1972/11/14

The acting in this movie is really good.

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teodorodontosaurus
1972/11/15

Andrey Tarkovskiy must be using the slowest filming techniques in the history of filmmaking... and that's something good actually; this way there is so much room for emotions that is being left. The movie clearly promotes profound human emotions. "Solaris" is actually more fast-paced than "Stalker", and both are outside of the boredom spectrum; most of the scenes are overwhelmingly eerie and beautiful, even if there's no dialogue. The philosophy here is outstanding! It gives a whole new purpose of the human existence on Earth. Everything is based on dialogues and symbolic imagery (typical Tarkovskiy concepts) and everything about this movie is a continuum revelation. Even after the end, the movie continues to echo into your mind. Artistic and soulful movie. An interesting observation: someone from the movie says something like this: "Don't transform this marvelous scientific phenomena into a cheap love story." Well, that's exactly what the American version is!

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sergelamarche
1972/11/16

This film is reminiscent of the old Star Trek if the captain was a bit melancholic and targetted by alien intelligence. The theme of the film is as if the planet's intelligence reaches the men on the station to keep them there. It uses love, the rematerialization of loved ones to entrap finally our hero. It's a B movie for us but was an A movie at the time for the Russian empire. Some pretty good effects for the time, looking quite cheap by today's standards. The story moves at snail pace possibly to keep us guessing and show us special effects.

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Kirpianuscus
1972/11/17

it is easy to say - a film by Andrei Tarkovski. symbols, poetry of image, old and great themes . and the need of discover yourself. but, like each film by Tarkovski, "Solaris" is not exactly a film of its director but the film of its public. a kind of mirror, in which you recognize crumbs from the novel by Lem and the fight to reconquest the pillars of the past. a past like the only certitude. the film is a masterpiece not only for the artistic reasons. but for the science to become, scene by scene, a personal story. a story about testimony and about the impact with truth about love as only tool for ignore the death and the fundamental choice. as a form of revelation. and as remind. about refuges and meanings and truth.

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justincward
1972/11/18

Somewhere in Solaris there's a great episode of Star Trek trying to emerge. As it is this movie is, though well acted, badly edited and badly scripted; the first half an hour or more is nothing but lengthy verbal exposition that's completely unnecessary and extremely tedious.Plot: you saw it on Star Trek many times: an alien life-form reads human minds and projects what people imagine into reality; mainly the psychologist's dead(?) wife, who refuses to die any more. The scientists on the Solaris space station make up no end of sub-Roddenberry guff in their plan to defeat the mysterious green glob.Do they succeed? I don't know, I turned it off after two hours. Maybe that's what the scientists should have done, would have saved a lot of trouble.Elaborate sets, Russian 1970's fashion-leather doubling for space gear, and a male lead who makes William Shatner at his heaviest look svelte. You probably need to smoke a pipe or two to get the full benefit of this. I can see why people say it's a classic; the actors have good chops, but goodness me, it's slower than Windows 95 in a deep freeze.

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