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Re: A near appreciation of Solaris

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That's a good point. I never thought there could be a satisfying filming of Kafka, but the Perkins/Welles "The Trial" is very effective and does create the atmosphere. And there are great, satisfying movies of psychological depth in Bergman, Bunuel, and Truffaut but these are usually humans in more or less human interaction and still sometimes have to border on surrealism.

In the case of Solaris, the idea of the Solaris ocean somehow generating events and matter according to memory and desire is ostensibly science fiction fantasy, but it's not Harry Potter seeing his dead parents in a magic mirror, it's overpowering inner conflict. And our hero as a kind of super-therapist is both resisting events on analytical grounds but still drawn in on emotional ones- complex as hell- and what is suggested goes on in the (oceanic) subconscious. This depth seems to exist tantalyzingly out of reach in Tarkovsky without the nuance of the spoken communication. There is the scene in which the "wife" begins to doubt that she is the original version and that's tough to get across in a few summarized subtitles. I'm breaking a life-long rule and wishing there was a well-dubbed English version.

Bambi B

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