Movie Review: Solaris

All right, so I'm 35 years late to properly review this movie. Big deal.

Here's a short synopsis, in true RMCNM style:

Random psychologist guy is told he'll go to some space station. Friend of shrink's father shows up with a video and shows it to shrink. Shrink leaves for station and finds out his friend killed himself. Weird stuff is going on on the station. Shrink's dead ex-wife shows up. Shrink blasts her off into space. Ex-wife shows up again. Shrink tries to figure out what the hell is going on. Shrink kind of goes insane. Planet starts changing. Movie ends on a weird note. (It's a Soviet movie, after all)

Ok, so that was a bit long; give me a break, I haven't done a RMCNM synopsis in a while.

Anyway, the movie is a bit long and has lots of sequences with little to no dialogue. Still, it's interesting and makes a lot of questions pop up about, for example, what exactly it means to be human, and how to deal with loss. It's not really the kind of movie you can convince someone to see just by talking about it, but it's a good psychological/philosophical trip into humanness.

Rating: four and a half dead ex-wives out of five.