Solaris, Stanisław Lem

Steven Soderbergh,
Solaris


Stardome (Echoes) - Stellardrone

Nikolái Nirenburg, 
Solaris

Solaris
(Tr. Spa-Eng. from a review by geniodevilna)

 Kris Kelvin arrives at Solaris station to replace one of its three occupants and find out under what circumstances he died. There he will discover that the two surviving team members are on the brink of madness, and that there are other strange appearances at the station, ghosts turned into flesh and bone which you cannot escape from. He himself will receive a visit from his past, Harey, a woman whom he once hurt and now the planet itself seems to have materialized for Kelvin. The planet located below the space station and named the same is covered by an ocean of unknown nature. For years science has tried to investigate its activity almost intelligent (almost?) without coming to any conclusion to determine its true nature. The author tries to show that perhaps an alien can be so different from us that communication is impossible, but that fact does not necessarily indicate that it is not intelligent.

Stanisław 
Lem

 Solaris talks about it, about dreams, feelings, and the human soul. Solaris, the planet, is a living entity that seeks to communicate, but as we do in our world with beings we consider inferior, we are studied, not knowing that it can harm us (or perhaps knowing it), to see our reactions. 

 Solaris is not in itself a work of science fiction, but of philosophy. A work that speaks to us, studies us, as human beings. As Lem says in his own novel: we have no need of other worlds. What we need are mirrors. We do not know what to do with other worlds. One world, our own, is enough for us, but we do not like it. And an end with no need to seek a conclusion, just to enjoy the views the author offers. It is impossible to avoid imagining the symmetriads, fungoides, the mimoides and other great events that occur in the living ocean of Solaris. Enjoy a classic of science fiction.

Andrei Tarkovsky, 
Solaris