As someone who is extremely fond of Kubrick‘s 2001, Solaris is hard to my taste, neither philosophically nor technically. Tarkovsky is certainly a profound artist for his poetry-writing through the flow of images, but I think in this film he overuses straightforward lines to reach the moral stand he’s trying to convey, more of a didactic than poetic. I also can’t have same metaphysical tendencies as the protagonist holds; it's hard to empathise with the phrase ‘now you are her’ when Hari is suffering from her identity. But I truly like the cinematography, especially the dream scenes and the tunnel shots. I think Solaris might be a novel attempt on scientific film, for its hints of consciousness-reflection and human emotion, but it’s not quite a full-fledged art piece. 7.5/10