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489. Directorpiece Theatre: How Soderbergh’s Solaris Tackles Grief
🕑 Added 2022-05-16 13:00:07 +0000 UTC
This is a fan-requested (Pick The Flick tier) episode on Soderbergh’s Solaris from 2002. A hearty Small Beans’ thank you to Tom D. for the request!
Adam and Abe talk about his cinematographic and editorial approach to the story of a planet that psychologically terrorizes a human crew on a space station.
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Comments
Andee Oord
LOVE hearing you guys wax poetic
Small Beans
Thanks! I just got a copy of it! Looking forward it! - Abe
Scottie Wottie
Great discussion! For anyone who hasn't read Lem's novella, I'd super recommend it. Not only does it get into the philosophy and tackle the question of a truly alien intelligence, but it's also a kick ass psychological ghost story in the vein of Shirley Jackson's "Hill House." By that I mean, the "visitors" that the alien creates for the characters are very upsetting to the characters, but most of the action takes place off camera so to speak. It's through their reactions that you get chills.
Spiritual Gigolo
There's no way Solaris counts as "low art".... It's long and slow and weird, and nobody saw it, those are the hallmarks of high art.
Spiritual Gigolo
I saw this movie in a theater in Prague. Went through a phase of watching everything with Czech subtitles for the rest of that year (I don't speak Czech, beyond ordering beer, I'm just weird)... Best film I've ever seen about George Clooney slowly losing his mind alone on a space station.
