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January 28, 2015 at 02:43AM
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Tarkovsky’s Solaris seems relevant to Hayles (2006)  ‘Unfinished Work From Cyborg to Cognisphere’. The metaphor below can also be extended to machines, as the setting of this film on a spacecraft suggest, and the fact that the planet which they are orbiting may be sentient. Memory also has a special role within all of this, as does the historical, mixing the particularly cultural, political and tradition with a futurism.

The London Film Review has this to say:

‘ Solaris (1972): An adaptation of the 1961 novel of the same name, with a Russian sci-fi art film twist. Whilst the original mediated on the primordial inadequacy of communication between humanity and the rest of the animal kingdom, Tarkovsky injects his personal brand of emotional and intellectual depth as murky as the ocean our cosmonaut scientists are exploring on Solaris.