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Give it to Mickey....err.. petew!

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Posted by Victor Khomenko on February 5, 2000 at 07:34:58

In Reply to: Me Too... posted by Rich S. on February 4, 2000 at 23:25:48:

1. 2001
2. Solaris
3. The Stalker

Boy, you ARE serious here... But careful, this kind of start is bound to produce no finish. OK, someone can certainly sit through the 2001 - enough things to look at to avoid overinternalizing. But then you go onto Solyaris - and things start getting heavy. Two great stars - Banionis and Dvorzhetski, not to mentions Jarvet and Solonitsyn (doing great work in the Mirror too, BTW), plus an incredible Russian beauty in the Soviet Union's own version of the wet t-shirt at -273K, plus about fifty minute race through the tunnels of Tokyo??? - but man, where is all the Sci-Fi stuff? It is all philosophy, plain and simple, there is no machinery to admire, no blasts from plastic weapons (Allien forte'), just pure meditation and inner thought.

But wait, you really wanna push the poor fellow to the brink. You then go to the Stalker...... boy, this is so much beyond pure indulgence, it is almost dangerous. I have deepest appreciation for those who managed to see it in one setting. My wife, NOT an action lover, an introvert reader and gentle beauty cognoscenti, did it in three sessions.

I admire your choices. I would certainly add the Mirror to that list - since you are already so deep in the slow deliberate meditation and self-analysis. I would personally take the "Mirror" ("A poetic river of somnambulism", as someone put it so well) over the Stalker any day, there is just so much more human presence in that one, and a gorgeous actress to boot (Margarita Terekhova), and since you had just opened wide that door, I would put it into that strange Sci-Fi bin too.

Do you know if it had been translated?

How would you like to take a shot at it, petew?

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