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 | | Tarkovsky's epic is based on Polish writer Lem's novel. |
| | But whereas the novel is entirely set on the planet Solaris, Tarkovsky frames the story by two visions of Earth: the first is an ordinary, realist one before the psychologist Kelvin (Banionis) sets off to investigate what is happening with the crew on the Solaris station. |
| | It is interesting to note that both 2001: A Space Odyssey and Solaris offer intellectual banalities cloaked in cinematic splendor while Der Grosse Verhau ridicules such operatic grandeur and provides an intensely intelligent, and therefore infinitely more disturbing, vision of human development in the space age and beyond. |
| www.csie.ntu.edu.tw /~ntucs82/PEOPLE/b2506017/sf/2.html (505 words) |
