Solaris

Tonight's movie will be the first half of Tarkovsky's солярис Solaris. I'm going to pace myself on it because, and I feel like a goon admitting it, it relaxes me to the point of narcolepsy. I know the story, having seen the George Clooney remake a couple of times, but I feel that I owe it to myself, as both a Russian student and a scifi fan, to see the original.
But since I've used the original's slow dreamy pace and quiet alien cadences of a foreign language too often as something to lull myself to sleep, Solaris has a Pavlovian effect on me- almost like NyQuil.
So I'm watching it with lights and subtitles on, sitting up, brain engaged.

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