In Reply to: Sorry to give you that news... the film is NOT about dealing with alien culture posted by Victor Khomenko on June 18, 2010 at 11:30:27:
Just not what you think...
Solaris is about a failure to communicate (to borrow an old phrase)
Difficulties in communication is a common theme in scifi. It's been done hundreds of times, quite a few of them were better than Solaris
Solaris was fine for it's time. Aspects of scifi are additive, alien race becomes alien races and then cultures and then cultural clashes and alliances and wars lasting millenia and on
and on.
Nowadays that would be just a subplot.
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Follow Ups
- Lots to feel sorry about - late 18:12:09 06/18/10 (10)
- RE: Lots to feel sorry about - Fretless 19:31:30 06/18/10 (9)
- Interesting, but... - late 20:20:32 06/18/10 (8)
- Lost in Internet space? - Victor Khomenko 06:12:47 06/22/10 (7)
- LOL - late 07:42:01 06/22/10 (6)
- "It was based on a book, and the book was Russian scifi" Need I say more? - Victor Khomenko 08:45:40 06/22/10 (5)
- Yeah, you need to say more. - late 08:46:42 06/22/10 (4)
- Don't worry, someone will give you a hint! - Victor Khomenko 10:36:32 06/22/10 (3)
- But it won't be you, you don't have one ..nt - late 11:13:54 06/22/10 (2)
- You do realize - sjb 16:39:34 06/24/10 (1)
- Nope - late 09:26:28 06/25/10 (0)