Christopher SoallSolaris
May 29th 2009 01:39
There's no way around it. Solaris is pretty crazy. Yes, it's another one of those Tarkovsky thinking films which uses science fiction as a foil for philosophy, but while Stalker is comparatively straightforward (!), Solaris is what happens when you take a film about love/loss, the power of need, the power of a complete inability-to-let-things-go and throw in some serious madness. You have gloriously bright and distinct sets, almost blinding, they're so vibrantly painted. And yet sterile. Much of the action is on a next to abandoned space station. Expect long walks down vacant corridors.
Ghosts are physical things here, manifestations of need that have their own will, their own needs, and their hauntings are both wanted and unwanted. Solaris is everything that you want and everything that you would die to avoid. Nightmare and daydream at once. It's that kind of movie. There are lovely moments and moments that make you want to reach for the remote.
And other moments which are their own kind of . . . special. Such as our hero's tendency to wander around in monogrammed pyjamas. Or the time . . . well, you'll just have to see it.
The ending is incomprehensible, just about. But 2001 wasn't exactly clear as a scraped-clean windshield either. It's about the journey, not the end. Something like that.
Ghosts are physical things here, manifestations of need that have their own will, their own needs, and their hauntings are both wanted and unwanted. Solaris is everything that you want and everything that you would die to avoid. Nightmare and daydream at once. It's that kind of movie. There are lovely moments and moments that make you want to reach for the remote.
And other moments which are their own kind of . . . special. Such as our hero's tendency to wander around in monogrammed pyjamas. Or the time . . . well, you'll just have to see it.
The ending is incomprehensible, just about. But 2001 wasn't exactly clear as a scraped-clean windshield either. It's about the journey, not the end. Something like that.
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