Solaris

Year: 1972

Grade: B

Country: USSR

Director: Tarkovsky

Review

it certainly is a longish feature but a day or so later the length doesn’t weigh upon you so much. definitely a good story which is well acted and directed, but my personal wish is that it used its time to delve more deeply into the philosophical questions that is poses throughout the film. though they are touched upon and explored a bit, they are not discussed thoroughly enough for my taste…i find that spike lee does this as well – choosing to introduce and issue and prod it a bit, but leave the meat of the matter to the audience. it’s not that i crave for answers to be laid out for me, but rather don’t have anyone to debate with so would like the movie to do a bit more of it. the ending is a bit nebulous and uncertain and therefore fitting. i don’t plan on watching this movie many more times in my life, but i’m glad i saw it at least once.