Pulled in two directions – by scientific rigour and human passion – Kris sees an escape from loneliness in the very thing that will make her more isolated. He is as attractive and as inscrutable as the planet itself. Polly Frame, excellent as psychologist Kris, is emotionally torn when Keegan Joyce appears as long-lost boyfriend Ray. The more real these manifestations become, the greater the existential crisis. First, it sends gifts of Earth-like objects, and eventually emissaries in human form. In Greig’s version, Solaris learns to talk to its visitors step by step, manifesting itself in increasingly sophisticated ways. It’s partly also to home in on the themes of loneliness, communication and unknowability. Lem s books have been translated into forty-one languages and have sold over forty-five million copies.Otherworldly … Hugo Weaving as Dr Gibarian and Keegan Joyce as Ray in Solaris Photograph: Pia Johnson Stanislaw Lem (1921 2006) is the author of many works bearing the broad label of science fiction and others ranging in genre and style from satire to philosophy. Long considered a classic, Solaris asks the question: Can we understand the universe around us without first understanding what lies within?Ī novel that makes you reevaluate the nature of intelligence itself. Could it be, as Solaris scientists speculate, that the ocean may be a massive neural center creating these memories, for a reason no one can identify? Kelvin learns that he is not alone in this and that other crews examining the planet are plagued with their own repressed and newly real memories. When psychologist Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he finds himself confronting a painful memory embodied in the physical likeness of a past lover.
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