An analysis of the self, memory, consciousness and philosophy itself as they relate to the 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky science fiction film Solaris. Want to request an episode or support the show? Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/renegadecut

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. Released in 1972.

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When do we achieve personhood? Is it something we always have since the moment we are born, or is it something given to us by our interactions with others or the accumulation of memories? In the 1972 science fiction film Solaris, we drift through the questions – weightlessly, as if through space or floating across an ocean. Kris Kelvin is tasked with boarding the space station that orbits the remote planet of Solaris. When he arrives, he learns that one cosmonaut, Gibarian, has committed suicide, and the surviving men, Sartorious and Snaut, warn Kelvin that he may begin seeing things. Visitors to the station. These “visitors” are created through some phenomena of Solaris – reaching into the memories of the men on the space station and creating new people. The planet manifests Hari – a replicated version of Kelvin’s deceased wife. He struggles with how much of the real Hari she could be, and she struggles with her improbable existence.

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