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Solaris

Year:
Duration:
99 min
Genres:
Drama | Mystery | Romance | Sci-Fi
IMDB rate:
6.2
Director:
Steven Soderbergh
Awards:
2 wins & 8 nominations
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 2002-11-27
Filming Locations: 7th & Hope Streets, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA
Earnings
Budget: $47,000,000
Opening Weekend: $6,752,722 (USA) (1 December 2002)
Gross: $14,970,038 (USA) (9 February 2003)
Cast
Actor
Character
George Clooney
George Clooney
Solaris
Natascha McElhone
Rheya
Viola Davis
Gordon
Jeremy Davies
Snow
Ulrich Tukur
Gibarian
John Cho
DBA Emissary #1
Morgan Rusler
DBA Emissary #2
Shane Skelton
Gibarian's Son
Donna Kimball
Mrs. Gibarian
Michael Ensign
Friend #1
Elpidia Carrillo
Friend #2
Kent Faulcon
Patient #1 (as Kent D. Faulcon)
Lauren Cohn
Patient #2 (as Lauren M. Cohn)
Tony Clemons
Dinner Guest
Jennie Baek
Passenger (uncredited)
Annie Morgan
Nurse (uncredited)
Jude S. Walko
City Dweller (uncredited)
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Trivia
Soderbergh cast Jeremy Davies in the film after seeing a tape Davies made of himself playing Charles Manson. Davies was preparing to play Manson in an independent film. The tape was passed around within the film industry and became a popular bootleg. Davies eventually played Manson in Helter Skelter (2004).
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George Clooney said that Steven Soderbergh was originally considering another actor for the lead so Clooney wrote him a letter asking to be considered as he thought a letter would be "less personal" if Soderbergh wanted to turn him down. Clooney said, "thank God the other actor turned it down." The other actor was Daniel Day-Lewis.
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James Cameron considered directing but opted to produce instead. Daniel Day-Lewis was considered to star.
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Goofs
George Clooney is shown traveling in a sleek slightly futuristic rapid transit train but the rear projection/blue screen out the window clearly shows the current day "Merchandise Mart" station of the Chicago CTA Subway. Also during his journey the train he passes going the opposite direction is a present day subway train.
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Quotes
Chris Kelvin: What does Solaris want from us?
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Chris Kelvin: Why haven't you come home? What happened here? What did you find?
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Chris Kelvin: Can you tell me what's happening here?
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Faq
Q
Chris is a reknowned psychologist. Why couldn't he seperate himself from Solaris?
A
Chris was sent to the ship to analyze why the crew stopped responding to calls from Earth. Solaris did not trick your mind, but actually made everything real while you were in its grasp. Knowing Rheya was dead, Chris did not believe at first that the Solaris "Rheya" was real, and immediately disposed of her through the escape pod. However, as Solaris continued to recreate her, physically putting her in his presence, he began to believe she existed. Therefore, even a very well trained mind could not tell the difference between what was real and what wasn't.
Q
What happened to Snow?
A
The actual human scientist named Snow had been dead for an unspecified length of time when Kelvin arrived on the station. The character named "Snow" that Kelvin, Rheya and Gordon interact with throughout the film is in fact one of the Solarist Visitors.Around the time the scientists began to notice the Solaris phenomena, Snow was visisted by a Solarist copy--either of himself or of a [twin] brother, as the Visitor later tells Kelvin. Startled, Snow went to attack the Visitor with a knife, only to drop the weapon in the struggle. Acting in self-defense, the Snow-Visitor grabbed the blade and used it to kill Snow, later hiding the scientist's corpse above the ceiling tiles of the morgue (dried blood can be noticed above Kelvin's head when he inspects the bodies shortly after arriving).The Snow-Visistor then proceeded to act as the real Snow so as not to elicit suspicon or accusation from Gordon. However, there must have been some discrepancy between the actual Snow's behaviour and the Snow-Visitor's impression, as Gordon announces her suspicions have been confirmed when she and Kelvin discover the body.As to the identity of Snow's visitor, one may never know. While it's possible that Solaris created a copy of Snow himself, this doesn't seem to fit with the other Visitors, whom had established a pattern of impersonating other people in the person's life (Gibarian's son, Rheya, etc.) Likewise, it is not certain that the Visitor truly is of Snow's brother, as at the time the Snow-Visitor mentioned this he was still hiding his own identity.
Q
What would happen if the ship returned to Earth with the Solaris version of "Rheya"?
A
It's not completely explained, however it could create something of a paradox ripple effect since there would be two metaphysical worlds: one with the real Rheya being dead, and one co-existing with the Solaris version of her alive.Another reason is that it could cause mass hysteria or panic back on Earth as people would either condemn her presence, or want to travel to Solaris to bring back a loved one themselves.Or possibly she would disappear, as she is part of Solaris.Depending on how you take the ending, maybe DID Chris went back to Earth in the first place, but Rheya, after becoming self-aware of her own existence, manifested Chris back to Solaris, where they both will die soon.
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