You have to see this performance in its entirety to believe it. Imagine a SUPER ULTRA SLOW AND SERIOUS science fiction film about DEATH AND LOVE and so forth had this guy jumping in every eight or so minutes to gibber and listen to the Insane Clown Posse (yes that's in the movie).
This is why I love poetv, because it reassures me that I'm not the only person to whom the remake of Solaris is "that remake of Solaris with ICP on the soundtrack".
Its handicapped by being a remake of a arguably superior Russian production, but yes the SciFi genre has been so sparse that it probably qualifies none the less.
Both films are adaptations of the same book. Soderberg's loses most all the trappings but retains the theme.
Tarkvosky's is a great big podium from which Tarkovsky can hammer the spike of his ideology into your skull.
Soderberg's Solaris = There are things we cannot know.
Tarkovsky's Solaris = There are things WE ARE NOT MEANT TO KNOW BECAUSE THEY ARE AN AFFRONT TO GOD AND WE WILL BE PUNISHED HORRIBLY IF WE BREAK HIS SACRED LAW.
This movie equals somber, brooding, pathos-driven performances from George Clooney and Viola Davis and then twitchy, itchy Jeremy Davies here. Love this movie.
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