"Flying to Space" is pseudo-science fiction, even anti-science fiction

——The mystery of the mirror, the sea of ??memory, the island of love

"Don't turn scientific problems into love problems"

But Tarkovsky It is necessary, so at the end, you will find that this is actually a "pseudo-science fiction" disguised as science fiction. The core of the film is about lost human love.

The Mystery of the Mirror

Pilot Henry Burton later said: When he lost control of the altitude above Solaris, he saw through the layers of colloidal fog , looking at the "ocean", first the waves disappeared, then the sea water boiled and turned into mud, and finally saw a 4-meter-tall giant... After everyone listened to his story, they felt that what he saw was just his hallucination. Hardly believable.

Years later, Burton showed this video to his friend's family, mainly his son, psychologist Chris Kelvin, in order to warn Chris that he had been on Solaris before. The strange things he saw were real. Chris was preparing to fly to the space station there to conduct a psychological evaluation of the three scientists Gibalian, Snart and Sartorios who still insisted on staying on the space station as a way to withdraw. Report basis for the space station.

Chris didn't take it seriously. He burned some personal belongings to say goodbye to his father. When he arrived at the space station, he saw other people besides the three scientists one after another, and Jibarian had committed suicide. , and then his wife Hallie, who had been dead for many years, suddenly appeared in the room. The strange thing was that after he tricked his wife into the rocket cabin and launched it, Hallie appeared in his room again soon at night. Snart told him, That Harley is not his wife, but the silt from that "ocean". They call it "guests". These "guests" will choose to become someone based on the memory in your mind, and they will regenerate. , immortality, immortality, eternal life.

Guest Hallie said that she had more and more deep human feelings and pain, and seemed to be getting more and more painful. She could not leave Chris for a moment and kept asking Chris: What happened to Hallie? What, why did you commit suicide by taking poison? Chris said that they always quarreled. One time when he left home to work, Halle took the sample and committed suicide. Probably Halle felt that he no longer loved her and she couldn't live without his love. .... Later, the guest Hallie also committed suicide by taking liquid oxygen. Her body was twisted and twitching, and there was blood around her mouth. The pain was unbearable to watch.

Chris found that he fell in love with his guest Harley again. He decided not to return to Earth, but to stay here and live with her. He often dreamed about the past, and soon got a fever, and then he understood Jibari Ann committed suicide not because of fear but because of shame. When he recovered and woke up, Snart told his guest that Harley had self-destructed and she would not come back. She once said that we come from your conscience, no see Love us more, but you must protect yourselves. When people find their conscience, the "guests" will disappear.

They had argued in the library about the issue of human exploration of the universe. "Human beings are not interested in conquering the universe. They only want to expand the earth to the edge of the universe. We don't know how to treat other worlds. We don't need other worlds." , we only need a mirror, humans only need humans, that "ocean" is like a mirror, allowing you to see the past. When you were on Earth, you didn't have this mirror, but you have it when you come to Solaris. The past is restored here. Now, this is a sea of ??memories.

Sea of ??Memories

Father told Chris: The hardest thing for people to learn is to say goodbye to the influence and questioning of the "guest" Harley on the space station. Next, Chris often recalled the happy scenes of him and his father and mother in the snow during his childhood. When he was a child, Chris ran behind his father and fell into the snow. His mother was standing next to him smoking with her dog in her arms. After collecting the firewood and lighting a bonfire, his mother stood by the lake. The young and beautiful mother in the picture had an eternal beauty like a painting.

He also thought of his wife Hallie standing by the lake. The image of leaning against the tree also dreamed of me returning home to see my mother, as if I just came back from a trip. My mother was still so young. When she saw Chris’s dirty hands, she brought a pot of water and washed his hands. , he burst into tears in the dream... When he arrived at the space station, he reunited with his dead mother and wife and said goodbye.

In fact, Gibarian, Snart and Sartorio. Si also has his own past. They insist on staying on the space station because they are reluctant to leave this sea of ??memories and cannot say goodbye to the past. Here is the eternal love they missed, but Jibarian finally collapsed and couldn't bear the shame in his heart. Suicide.

The Island of Love

Finally, Chris returned to Earth. He came to his father's house again. The ashes of the burning things on the grass in front of the house were still steaming, as if he Just like when he left, he walked to the window and saw his father standing with his back to him in the leaky living room sorting old books. His father turned around and saw him. When he walked out of the house, Chris knelt under his father's knees and hugged him. Legs, crying loudly, two men who lost their loved ones, the camera climbed up, the father's home and the trees and lake around the house became smaller and smaller, through the clouds, the place was suddenly covered by the "ocean" of Solaris. Surrounded and turned into an isolated island.

Snart once said to Chris: After radiating his EEG onto the "ocean", the "ocean" slowly became clear, the mud turned into sea water, and islands appeared in the sea. .....At first you thought it was a science fiction film, then it was a thriller, a romance film, a philosophical film, and finally you found out it was a film about love and humanity. The real horror is not being able to face your inner fear. If you If you can get through the inexplicable first half, you will be immersed in the lingering sadness in the second half. It is the forever lost love and time that cannot be recovered. Watching the water plants rippling back and forth in the river, along the The river of memory traces back, like standing in a dream of memory. You don't know why Harley committed suicide, nor why Chris's mother died, but it should all be related to love. The dilemma of love cannot be truly understood. Together, without love, we are like orphans. Even if we have returned to Earth, we are still like living on an isolated island in the ocean of Solaris. Oh, it turns out that human beings have always lived on an isolated island of love and have never left. Everything is okay. Said it was just an illusion.

In "Ad Astra", Roy's father spent his whole life trying to explore the unknown universe and search for extraterrestrial life, but he missed the love for his wife and son, and finally exiled himself in space forever. , Roy understood after meeting his father that you can explore the universe without giving up your love for the people around you.

"There are billions of people on the earth, but only a few of them truly know and understand love. They keep asking why. When you are happy, you don’t know death. You don’t know when you will die. Death is coming. It feels like we will live forever, and we wait until the last moment to talk about the meaning of life, happiness, death, and the mystery of love. We always argue about various issues because we have ideas, such as Don Quixote, Faust, and Thors. Tai..." Human beings have been constantly exploring spiritually, but now we are only thinking about exploring the universe, and have lost all the original love of mankind, and have neglected to continue the philosophical essence of Socrates - "Know thyself", what is the point of exploring the universe if human dignity and humanity are lost?

Therefore, "Flying to Space" is not only pseudo-science fiction, but even anti-science fiction. It is not to show humans actively and bravely exploring the unknown driven by curiosity, but to reflect and remind humans that they should return to Greek tradition: The first thing a person should know is to know oneself. To know and understand human love is to respect oneself. The film is accompanied by the constant recollection of the love and time that is lost forever, and is always filled with tragic thoughts. What is interesting is that it is considered the most popular film. One of the best science fiction movies.