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...face of it, Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris promises a Russian version of Star Trek. Russian physicist, Gibaryan, a psychologist and "solarist" to determine what has made over 80 scientists desert or die aboard the space-ship Solaris, a lab set up to study an oozing, brain-colored body of liquid on another planet. Yet Gibaryan soon confronts the likelihood that the ocean Solaris may actually represent his own subconscious, and Tarkovsky appears to be attempting the same sort of space consciousness analogy Kubrick hinted at in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Maybe...
...Tarkovsky flashes out his film with a bizarre, enigmatic, spirituality that ultimately defies hard and fast explanation. The soulful-eyed women and dreamlike lapes of time the ocean draws from Gibaryan's mind and memory, along with a palet of dewy, pastel colors unfamiliar to Western films, vaguely suggest other film and other motifs, but leave the viewer for the most part unsure and even uneasy...
...GIBARYAN IS DEAD...
...knew Gibaryan. He would never...
...blue negligee? "Is she real?," Kelvin asks Snauf, the last astronaut. "Is she human?" Snauf only laughs, wildly, wickedly. A panic starts to grab Kelvin, like a pounding hangover on a clammy summer morning. No more Mr. Imperterbable. On a tape made just before his suicide, Gibaryan tells Kelvin nervously not to think that these "guests"--the apparitions--are just figments of his imagination. After all, he tells him, this is no longer Earth...
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