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movie review - Solaris

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

This is a sci-fi flick about a psychologist who is called to a distant space research centre to get to the bottom of some recent events. Things have gone very strange on the centre that orbits what may be a (bizarre) planet (ie, "Solaris"). When he (George Clooney) gets there, he learns all about the source of the strangeness indeed.

It's a pretty heady movie. I saw this with a Japanese girl who is fairly new to English, and she had plenty of questions when we emerged. I've been using English essentially exclusively for almost 32 years, and I didn't have all the answers. In any event, a beautifully filmed movie and certainly an original plot (though this is the second filmed interpretation of the book by the same title) and some nasty concepts. I quite enjoyed it and recommend it to anyone who's willing to wait for its pacing; it's worth the wait.

Recommended.