![]() ![]() Instead, we are given a good deal of exposition regarding the doctor's feelings regarding his wife and what he would do to have her back in any shape or form. In fact, aside from a couple of corpses, you never really get to see any. The difference here is that the violence is not essential to the plot. Alien has a degree of violence, most of which is implied, and so too does Solaris. In essence, it sounds a lot like the basic plot for Alien, minus the violence. From what I am able to discern, an alien intelligence is trying to take over the ship's crew, in the hope that the ship will return to Earth and take them with it. So when he is floating aimlessly around a spaceship that orbits the titular planet, apparitions of his wife begin appearing. ![]() The plot revolves around a psychologist who is suffering deep emotional problems, which mainly seem to revolve around the suicide of his wife. ![]() Nonetheless, I will be very interested to see future projects from Steven Soderbergh. Which is just as well, because the film itself is slower than the proverbial wet week, in spite of being less than a hundred minutes in length. As a science fiction film, Solaris follows the same rule as the best of the genre, namely that it isn't the creatures or technology that makes the viewers want to watch, it is the human drama. ![]()
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