What a double bill.
Solaris – reams have been written about it, and I don’t need to add more really, but it was an interesting reaction to 2001, which Tarkovsky apparently thought was “cold and impersonal.”
I had trouble with the reactions of the characters to the events taking place – they just didn’t seem to be plausible. Especially since the pilot who had originally seen the manifestations years earlier, and tries to tell Kelvin about them on earth, seemed very believable in his reactions, both in the archive footage of his report and his meeting with Kelvin. Continue reading Solaris / Trials of Henry Kissinger