Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)
For our individual assignment, I was given the film Solaris to watch. Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, the same man who directed The Mirror, Solaris is a film based off of the science fiction novel by Stanislaw Lem. The story revolves around a mysterious planet and a psychologist who decides to re-spark the exploration of it and to check with the few remaining members aboard a previous expedition flight. This main character, Kris Kevin, while living on the aircraft with the other members begins to experience various and unexplainable phenomena. The whole film has a very unique, futuristic vibe to it, fitting for a Tarkovsky film. Yet it was much more confusing of a plot than I anticipated (and much longer too!). Just like The Mirror that we watched in class, you can tell immediately that this is a work of Tarkovsky. The capitalization of natural elements such as waves and (the dripping of) water, snow, sunlight, shadows, etc. have constant appearances ...
