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Actually Solaris (the original) is timeless in what it speaks to and asks.

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In Reply to: RE: Read the story when it came out, seen both movies. posted by late on June 16, 2010 at 18:06:27

This aside from the fact that the subject of Solaris at it's base is not about contact problems/interactions with alien thought processes...at least not external ones.

Also, one will never really 'get' Solaris if one divorces it from or loses awareness of the Zeitgeist of the nation/times/culture that created it.

BTW, many of the (unnamed) films you mention that followed Solaris borrowed heavily and/or were inspired by it.

J.B.

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Not really - late 08:17:35 06/22/10 (0)
Most fiction ages, and this falls into that category in a number of ways.

So what we have is a work that was good for it's time. That's all.

Of course others borrowed, I don't know of any genre that developed it's themes as it went along as much as scifi did.

Like Vic, you see this as ahht. I see it as scifi. You know, go to alien planet, there's an alien there, things happen.

To tell ya the truth, I feel scifi and that whole psychological fiction thing is a very awkward marriage.

Heart of Darkness this ain't...

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