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Solaris (1972)
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A Cinema of Loneliness: How WAL ...
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"This week I wanted to make a simple point: Andrew Stanton’s WALL-E is a near-masterpiece of A.I. proportions and socio-political implications, reduced by its cloying musical score to just another ingenious Disney/Pixar heart-tugger. The most effective way to illustrate this would have been to create a video mash-up of the WALL-E score and an immersive philosophical sci-fi like 2001: A Space Odyssey, THX-1138 or Tarkovsky’s Solaris. But my laptop’s down, so I’m stuck here telling you rather than showing. Let’s try another way: This column is written by a single man in his 30’s who spends a lot of time alone. If Disney or Sony or the Weinstein Company made a movie about my life, there would be lots of alienated, bassy sounds over shots of me staring red-eyed at a library computer screen; piano tinkling accompanying my pitiful walk home; despairing choral chants and Middle Eastern wailing as I trudge up to the arthous "
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"SUNSHINE is one of those films that had me hooked for most of its length, but then during the last act almost completely lost me; although not entirely in this case, thankfully. I was slightly disappointed that Danny Boyle, the director the film (also TRAINSPOTTING and 28 DAYS LATER), went for the conventional mainstream plot devices that he threw into the last act of film. I won’t say what they were… you’ll just have to see the film, and we can talk about it afterwards if anyone wants to… but anyway… I really liked the film overall – it’s one of those apocalyptic, end of the world scenarios that we’re presented with: in a nutshell, the sun is dying, and world governments assemble a team of scientists and astronauts to go on what is essentially on a suicide mission, into space, in a ship armed with a nuclear weapon meant to be launched into the sun’s core, where it will explode and reignite the sun… a scenario which we ... "
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"Andrei Tarkovsky is one of the world’s most renowned film directors. He also has a reputation of making very slow-paced movies with extremely long takes. Quite a few people told me that his films are “difficult to watch” and boring. I was a little intimidated by those comments. But after reading an article by director Akira Kurosawa on Solaris, I was determined to watch the film.In Solaris, psychologist Kris Kelvin was sent to the space station on an ocean planet Solaris because the scientists there were acting weird. When Kelvin arrived, he is perplexed by the remaining scientist while his deceased ex-wife appears in front of him mysteriously. Solaris is billed as a sci-fi movie. Yet there is nothing much “sci-fi” about it. Solaris has long been hailed as an “intellectual sci-fi” movie along with Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Interestingly, Tarkovsky watched 2001 before he made Solaris and dismissed it as cold and sterile. ... "
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