I just can not resist

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisław_Lem Geeee I wonder if that links??????Oh well...either way ,now that the spelling of the Polish author of the book,'Solaris' has been established I feel emboldened to say that in as much as I have been informed he did not like the first filmed version of his book,this 21st century version could only be mystifying to the author of nuanced social criticism written in a variety of ways.I remember all the reviews of the new version of lem's work called it "Tarkovsky's Solaris".Andre Tarkovsky made movies with as little polemics as could be possible to be obvious in a film.Andrey Rublyov,made significantly earlier than the first Solaris ,is as far as I know widely to be considered a "great film".Andrey Rublyov is an artists movie about artists and the concept of art occurring by mystery is explored as an avenue towards a further social reality whereby everyone is considered an artist by dint of ones life itself.Tarkovsky wrote a much better movie in my opinion but his name need go no further.This new television commercial type version falls so far bellow what I thought it must be like I can not imagine what other people saw including some who asked me to spill whatever I knew about it.I always loved the original film and had seen it at a theater many moons ago as part of a triple feature with the now non existant original thx1138 and blade runner all on a giant movie screen.Solaris is obviously composed visually to make those visual choices part of the story.The power of oblique seemingly unconnected images to create a compelling story is certainly part of the reason I was drawn to the film but over years of watching it I realize the abstract visual composition within the film in so many scenes throughout are compelling as they are satisfying to the eye.Initially I had the book and found the movie a little less but it is a close facsimile in my opinion.George Clooney seems to have made a movie that tries to replace the director's inability to direct the film with dialogue invented by putting words to Tarkovsky's visual suggestions.Tarkovsky came from a high ranking apparatchick family and constrained by the Soviet censor, still he does not film scenes with a slightly moving camera to create the "affect" of the cutting edge in artistic expression.I say well done to those who watched this pointless remake with any interest at all as it shows good staying power and the ability to make whats best out of a terrible situation.21st century Solaris has a nice music score but still falls short of the original.It seems obvious when dialogue is used for convenience as it is in these cases in film when I either do not care or become ambivalent about the characters.