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Who composed the main theme of this film, and what is the name of the piece?

A dream-like examination of love and first contact

Hauntingly beautiful and complex science fiction story, a unique masterpiece

There's something about this movie, I just can't put my finger on it...

Nikolay Grinko, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, and Anatoliy Solonitsyn in Stalker (1979)

George Clooney and Natascha McElhone in Solaris (2002)

Science? Nonsense! In this situation mediocrity and genius are equally useless! I must tell you that we really have no desire to conquer any cosmos. We want to extend the Earth up to its borders. We don't know what to do with other worlds. We don't need other worlds. We need a mirror. We struggle to make contact, but we'll never achieve it. We are in a ridiculous predicament of man pursuing a goal that he fears and that he really does not need. Man needs man!

The Little Organ Book: Ich Ruf Zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ - BWV 639

Donatas Banionis and Natalya Bondarchuk in Solaris (1972)

Donatas Banionis, Olga Kizilova, and Sos Sargsyan in Solaris (1972)

Natalya Bondarchuk

Donatas Banionis

Jüri Järvet

Stanislaw Lem

Fridrikh Gorenshteyn

Andrei Tarkovsky

A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.

Solyaris

Cerebral Sci-Fi

It&apos;s tough to come into a film like &quot;Solaris&quot; without tremendous expectations after having heard for so long about its greatness. If you don&apos;t immediately feel like it&apos;s one of the best movies you&apos;ve ever seen -- after hearing so many say it is -- you&apos;re either tempted to overcompensate and exaggerate how overrated it is out of a sense of defensiveness, or think something&apos;s wrong with you for being the only one not to &quot;get it.&quot;

As with most movies that have been saddled with the word &quot;greatness,&quot; I understand why &quot;Solaris&quot; is considered to be such a watershed movie and so revered by so many, but I have to admit that I didn&apos;t personally feel myself responding to it all that much. Maybe I would on a second (or third or fourth) viewing, but I can&apos;t say I&apos;m very compelled to watch it again. It&apos;s cerebral and philosophical, which I expected, and a bit cold and emotionally uninvolving despite the fact that it&apos;s about almost nothing but human emotions and how we react to life&apos;s biggest mysteries. I didn&apos;t warm much to the characters or ever really think of them as individual human beings so much as necessary conduits for communicating the film&apos;s philosophical ruminations. Despite being set in the vast reaches of space, it&apos;s a claustrophobic movie, which I think is intentional. We never see space, only the cramped interiors of a spaceship, and that feels right, since the movie is more about the vast universe contained within Man&apos;s head than it is about the great physical universe beyond our solar system&apos;s borders.

What I liked most about &quot;Solaris&quot; is that it suggests that Man isn&apos;t really developed enough to handle breakthroughs in our understanding of the larger universe. Given the chance to explore space and engage with elements beyond our comprehension, the characters in the movie instead spend all of their time ruminating over and regretting the people they left behind on Earth and the mistakes they made there. It&apos;s almost like Mankind turns to solving giant huge mysteries as a distraction from the fact that we&apos;re not capable of cracking the lesser, more mundane mysteries of everyday life, like love, commitment, and dependence on one another.

&quot;Solaris&quot; does have one chilling and memorable ending, I&apos;ll give it that. If we go poking around in what we don&apos;t understand, it seems to say, we may very well find ourselves unable to return to what we do.

Grade: A-

Official Trailer

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It's tough to come into a film like "Solaris" without tremendous expectations after having heard for so long about its greatness. If you don't immediately feel like it's one of the best movies you've ever seen -- after hearing so many say it is -- you're either tempted to overcompensate and exaggerate how overrated it is out of a sense of defensiveness, or think something's wrong with you for being the only one not to "get it."

As with most movies that have been saddled with the word "greatness," I understand why "Solaris" is considered to be such a watershed movie and so revered by so many, but I have to admit that I didn't personally feel myself responding to it all that much. Maybe I would on a second (or third or fourth) viewing, but I can't say I'm very compelled to watch it again. It's cerebral and philosophical, which I expected, and a bit cold and emotionally uninvolving despite the fact that it's about almost nothing but human emotions and how we react to life's biggest mysteries. I didn't warm much to the characters or ever really think of them as individual human beings so much as necessary conduits for communicating the film's philosophical ruminations. Despite being set in the vast reaches of space, it's a claustrophobic movie, which I think is intentional. We never see space, only the cramped interiors of a spaceship, and that feels right, since the movie is more about the vast universe contained within Man's head than it is about the great physical universe beyond our solar system's borders.

What I liked most about "Solaris" is that it suggests that Man isn't really developed enough to handle breakthroughs in our understanding of the larger universe. Given the chance to explore space and engage with elements beyond our comprehension, the characters in the movie instead spend all of their time ruminating over and regretting the people they left behind on Earth and the mistakes they made there. It's almost like Mankind turns to solving giant huge mysteries as a distraction from the fact that we're not capable of cracking the lesser, more mundane mysteries of everyday life, like love, commitment, and dependence on one another.

"Solaris" does have one chilling and memorable ending, I'll give it that. If we go poking around in what we don't understand, it seems to say, we may very well find ourselves unable to return to what we do.

Grade: A-

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