jrenoe1
I have not seen the original...yet. So no comparison here. The whole movie I was thinking "this is flat" "this has no depth". Great visuals, score is only so-so. Acting was subdued, on purpose no doubt. Then came the positive but detached feeling afterwards. The is a mildly uplifting movie but in a out-of-body-feeling way. Watch it. Hang with it until the end. A nice job all the way around and a movie the feels like nothing else I've seen.
Takeshi-K
This movie was quite good. It's editing style was unique in many ways and the atmosphere embodied the melancholy I imagine one must feel when stuck on a space going vessel alone. Its a movie that is saturated in nostalgia from which it draws most of its powers, memories of lost love back on earth. The movie renders the emotional juxtaposition between the living and the dead and the loved and the lost. Its nowhere near as psychologically or politically profound as the original film, as a stand alone movie it is quite enjoyable just the same.
nikolaiv85
Solaris is ,from my point of view, sci-fi biblical story. I found this like representation of Armageddon by Stanisław Lem. Solaris at the end of movie becoming bigger and bigger, like Sun will be in several thousand years, and I feel like he wrote this to help his mind and soul to accept that fact easier, more like glimmer of hope, about afterlife. Solaris from my point of view, represents both heaven and Sun.I don't agree with him, but I find this very creative, and that is only reason why I gave 7 for this movie. Here comes bad parts.Other things-I really hate blow-mind movies, where main characters are making worlds to run from reality. Also, ending of movie is definite one, there is no room for further explanations like other users are saying. Main character was influenced by his own emotions,he imagined what would be his life back on Earth.He chose death,instead of that kind of life.only explanation. And that is,for me , waste. All actions of his wife ,were ultimately selfish. Abortion, suicide. He left her before her suicide,because, she chose without him. Her issues are not explanation for her selfishness. and she killed herself because she didn't want to live without him,and to make him pay, that is both stupid and I repeat, ultimately selfish.OK, this is story about weak man,who loves sickly selfish manipulative woman, and he secretly wants second chance, and I don't buy this as true love, and as story about second chance... This part of story I see like Stockholm s syndrome.Second chance could be needed if something bad happened, here is about: Psychopath and her victim-part two.
richard phoebus
There are some interesting themes in the film - and in many ways, this is an outer space version of Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind with a few Vanilla Sky time-line distortions mixed in for good measure. Each of these three films was exploring similar ideas at around the same time.Who hasn't butchered a fantastic relationship and wished there was a way to go back and make better decisions?Solaris resonated with me in that I found it to be about second chances with a love that went from perfect to tragic, and the idea that what may have accelerated the deterioration may have as much to do with people's perceptions of one another as much as the situation itself.As for the suggestions that there are too many unexplained occurrences throughout the movie, such is life.Peace Richard
