Comments | starplucker: I'm dreaming of a white desert

starplucker

I'm dreaming of a white desert

Feb 11, 2010 00:09

Soderbergh's Solaris while doing my laundry tonight, which I thoroughly enjoyed regardless of it being a protracted episode of any number of Star Trek iterations. Good science fiction can accomplish a number of things, not the least of which being a way to ask existential questions not as easily framed in our current reality. But you knew that ( Read more... )

Comments 5

krasota February 11 2010, 12:38:25 UTC

I prefer Tarkovsky's Solaris, have you seen that one? I might have it on VHS--I can dig around. You might find it interminably long and very slow paced. I probably have a copy of Lem's book.

erp starplucker February 11 2010, 14:22:44 UTC

What's funny, in and actually quite embarrassing: that's the one I accidentally got Netflix to send me at first, and when it showed up last week I just couldn't bring myself to commit to the extra hour. That and I was simultaneously doing some netbooky-things and couldn't be bothered with subtitles at the time...

Lord, now I'm making excuses. Time to go queue it up again before I lose any more face.

Re: erp krasota February 11 2010, 14:31:47 UTC

Hey, it's long and subtle and many would probably find it boring. No shame there. The score (Edward Artemiev) is phenomenal if you like minimalist early experimental electronic ambient stuff, though. And since you don't speak Russian (do you?), you'd have to actually pay attention to the subtitles. It might not be up your alley.

We have the score/soundtrack on CD. Happy to loan it.

Re: erp starplucker February 11 2010, 14:47:50 UTC

That's the thing, it totally is up my alley (I like good movies! I swearses!) and subtitles normally don't bother me at all. Just wasn't what I expected when I popped it in that day and I hadn't really prepped myself for that long haul.

I found Soderbergh's to have its subtleties as well, just in a more modern short-attention-span style. But the story as told in this movie really did have me wondering if I hadn't seen this happen to Riker at some point.

Peter Gabriel inthewildworld February 11 2010, 20:20:28 UTC

Peter Gabriel's In Your Eyes has to be one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.

P.S: Snow fucking sucks.