Both are the best in their genre, in their approach.But that means that even though the themes are similar, the main message coming from Solaris experience is diffferent. Lem - rational, philosophical. Tarkovsky is more poetic, introspective, spiritual. Are similar in some ways, and different in others. And I'm glad I did.The book and the film.
"What is a normal person? Someone who's never done anything heinous? Right, but has he never even thought about it? Or maybe he never thought about it, but something inside him thought it, the idea popped into his head, ten or thirty years ago, maybe he fought it off and forgot about it, and he wasn't afraid, because he knew he'd never carry it out. I picked some quotes from the book where you can see some ideas that you would notice both in the book and the film - but developed in different ways:1) The idea of humanity wanting to get mirrored, understood by The Universe, and being in horror when The Universe mirrors back the worst of humanity's traits.""A normal person," he said. I now understand why Lem was unhappy with Tarkovsky's film.Solaris is primarily a book of ideas, but there is also a very deep psychological undercurrent. Even though it might seem like nuances, that's a grandiose shift of message.
One world is enough, even there we feel stifled. We don't know what to do with other worlds. We don't need other worlds. "Then you have Solaris""We're not searching for anything except people. "The Station," he said quietly. What then? What do you have then?" I said nothing.
This would be a God limited in his omniscience and omnipotence, one who can make mistakes in foreseeing the future of his works, who can find himself horrified by the course of events he has set in motion. A defective God? I mean a God whose deficiencies don't arise from the simplemindedness of his human creators, but constitute his most essential, immanent character. Lem ir very clear on this, Tarkovsky treats the subject less directly - through poetic expression, general ambiance of the film." I'm no specialist in religion, and I may not have come up with anything new, but do you happen to know if there ever existed a faith in. We have it, this contact! Our own monstrous ugliness, our own buffoonery and shame, magnified as if it was under a microscope!"2) The idea of defective/crippled God/Meaning. Yet on the other side there's something we refuse to accept, that we fend off though after all, from Earth we didn't bring merely a distillation of virtues, the heroic figure of Humankind! We came here as we truly are, and when the other side shows us that truth-the part of it we pass over in silence-we're unable to come to terms with it! It's what we wanted: contact with another civilization.
True, even this I was not completely certain of. But its actions were geared towards some purpose. It seemed to me very, very authentic, you know? It would be the only God I'd be inclined to believe in, one whose suffering wasn't redemption, didn't save anyone, didn't serve any purpose, it just WAS."3) failure to communicate with a Complete Other."I didn't believe for a minute that this liquid colossus, which had brought about the death of hundreds of humans within itself, with which my entire race had for decades been trying in vain to establish at least a thread of communication-that this ocean, lifting me up unwittingly like a speck of dust, could be moved by the tragedy of two human beings. And has created an infinity that, from being the measure of the power he was supposed to have, turned into the measure of his boundless failure. Has built systems or mechanisms that serve particular purposes, but they too have outgrown these purposes and betrayed them. Who has built clocks, but not the time that they measure.
But it is clear to me that they saw Solaris differently. Their messages are almost always very subtle, and can be interpreted in various ways. For Lem preciousness, sacredness, preservance of humanity is not the main point - it's more an awe in front of Unknowable who can exploit human weaknesses, vulnerability for purposes unknown, and desperate wish to come even one step closer to the Truth, to comprehending the Unknowable.Both Lem and Tarkovsky are geniuses. At the very end of the film we see The Solaris mirroring back the Human World, though in a heavily distorted form, thus giving hope that some of it might be preserved for eternity.
What of it if, in the recesses of one of its aisles that is a ten-fold version of a Kronecker space, we stand like ants holding onto the folds of a breathing vault, that we watch the rise of vast planes grayly opalescent in the light of our flares, their interpenetration, the softness and infallible perfection of their resolution, which only lasts a moment, for everything here is fluid-the content of this architecture is motion, intent and purposive. A symmetriad is millions, no, billions, to the nth power it is unimaginability itself. The fate of a single person can mean many things, the fate of several hundred is hard to encompass but the history of thousands, millions, means essentially nothing at all. We experience this even with relatively simple phenomena. Visualizing a simultaneous multiplicity of processes, however they may be interconnected, however they may complement one another, is beyond us. The very idea of symmetriad, for example:" A human being is capable of taking in very few things at one time we see only what is happening in front of us, here and now.
It may have been more novel when the book was written but the idea of what happens when we meet alien life and find it so different that no communication is possible. The premise is sort of interesting. Or maybe it is a mater of American vs Polish literary traditions. For this reason someone gave them the name of geometric symphony, but if this is the case, we are its unhearing audience."Maybe its just the translation but this failed to get my attention.
There is very little character development and not much character interaction. However, there isn't all that much real action. It is almost beyond the reader to pass up the temptation to skim these pages and get to the real action. The style of these long passage reads as translation like a polite 19th century novel.
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