he has no part in the novel, but he shows in a dream kris has, and he is the one who did all the research on solaris, and has a librery of the histiry of solaris, of which some 45-50 pages in the novel are dedicated to, providing the reader with the structure of the planet, with studies of it, theories of the ocean, and so on and so forth
Giberian represents the cold science, the data and cold facts of the solaris expieriance.
Rheya would probably be the most passive character in the story, just existing there, not playing a part beside being kris's illusion, who doesnt leave him, nobody know what she is, where she came from and why.
Snow has a paralel story to kris's, has similar expieriances, of which we know nothing, but he is kris's only friend.
Sartorius stays the seriuos sciantist, and almost doesnt exist in the story. Anything he says and does might as well have come from a text book, nobody knows what he does, execpt that by the end we realise he is trying to use the planet to a research to find immortality.
in the novel, there is a lot of descriptions of the planet, and vivid description of the personal enviormant of kelvin. The room he is in, the laboratories, the planet. The novel starts with description of his trip to the space station, with detailed descriptions, that makes the reader feel stressed, feel claustrofobic, a feeling that stays during all the movie.
- the story, or the novel, gives the reader a feeling that it has another value, talking about god in the end, or raising alot of questions of existence, questions about love and the illusion of existence. i will not go into anymore details about the book, because this is a cinema work. i will add, though that the book, was alot more profound then the story it had to tell.
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THE SOLARIS MOVIE, 20th CENTURY FOX, 2002.
PRODUCTION DESIGNER: PHILIP MESSINA.
This film is a typical american film, has no depth of idea, and gives the impression that nothing really happens.