Review of Solaris

Solaris (1972)
10/10
Candles and rain in a space station
8 November 2012
Have you ever heard Pieter Bruegel's "Jagers in de Sneeuw"? Tarkowski's adaption of Lem's novel, four years after the first one (by Boris Nirenburg) and forty years before the Solaris opera and the Solaris stage play, seems to be the first of its kind, the birth of "science fiction" as I know it, including the "full set" of human impulses when dealing with this questions, what we could find on other planets, under other suns.

Tarkowski found an end which still brings a shiver to my back. Although I "know" that we cannot make the earth as big as the space or find the immortality somewhere outside.

Somehow it feels like Philip Glass knew the Music of Eduard Artemev. And Natalya Bondarchuk is so very beautiful... one of the few in cinema, this essentially belongs to my personal review. This special beauty I saw again only in Jodie Fosters play of Eleanor Arroway in "Contact" by Robert Zemeckis.

Remember: it was the time mankind looked for evidences for the last fundamental force of nature, the weak force; the only force that violates parity-symmetry, and it was found one year after Solyaris.

1997 the father of Ellie Arroway - materialized from her memories - said, that the only thing to stand this emptiness is 'each other' Andreji Tarkowski left us with a very important issue: it's not possible to distinguish between reality and memory without each other, and that this is the key to find a way how to learn to love the whole manhood - after discovering the basics of nature.

He found a way to say this in the middle of the cold war. Not directly but through the lack of it. Solyaris is a kind of "elementary particle physics", dressed in art.

And beauty.
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