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Soderbergh interviews about this film and more in-depth look at the rest

posted 9 years ago by JstapR
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Hi,

I noticed somewhere in a youtube comment that Soderbergh reportedly spoke out about how the public received this film, but I can't see any interviews with him with solaris in the title. Maybe I should not be searching youtube. Does anyone have anything?

Furthermore I would like to see a philosophical exploration of these existential questions and I also wondered about possible comparisons to the world of the matrix, where once the simulation is 'good enough' you would trade your actual reality for it. Any thoughts or good blogs you've found?

By the way, though this film is probably my favourite of all, I havent seen anyone reporting that it absolutely destroys anyone else emotionally. This is going to sound bonkers to some, but I actually came very close to catharsis the last time I viewed it, when I tried to imagine the scope of the suffering involved in being unable to accept that clinging to his strongest desire (to have this perfect, pure love, whole again), is a mirage. A trap even. I liken the letting go of this final desire to equal ego-death. Dissolution into the unknown. There is a concept for the ego of what love should be like and it fights for its existence. Maybe I'm just being sentimental.

[–] Razzles2786 9 years ago

http://reflectionsonfilmandtelevision.blogspot.com/2012/07/cult-movie- review-solaris-2002.html?m=1
You've probably already seen this, but their interpretation is pretty great.

I can get that way too if I allow myself to think about it too much. It's a lot like the pale blue dot idea as well. We literally do not matter, nothing matters, not in the grand scheme of the universe and life as we know it. Nobody knows beyond what we know and can comprehend as humans. That's it, you just have to accept it and continue on living the life we are supposed to by following all the conventions society has created so that we don't question any of it and make ourselves useful.