Solaris

[clayhornik]

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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Comments

[dfordoom.livejournal.com]

I love the original Solaris movie. I didn't like the remake at all.

[francis-clay.livejournal.com]

I think the Russian-ness made it for better sci-fi, there was a more alien feel for me because of the language barrier and the Tarkovsky direction, while the remake, while... attractive enough, seemed... not unknown.
Oh, that makes sense.

Ah- got it: overly familiar, because it's George Clooney!. He had the gravitas to play Kelvin, but at the end of the day, it was George Clooney in space.