"I deliver perfection..." "and don't brag about it!" ":" "D" "You know, you're with the right man." "I love you so much." "What appealed to me about this story was that it wasn't about technology." "It is a love story." "I don't believe we're predetermined to relive our past." "It's a fiction of ideas, and it's a fiction of people." " What's happening here?" " You found me." " You're being manipulated." " Don't leave me!" " That's not your wife." " She's alive." " Go back." " I can't leave her." "Solaris is a planet that's been discovered, but that seems to have very unusual characteristics." "Chris Kelvin is sent to try and recover what is basically an abandoned space mission because he knows one of the people on board, and their previous attempts to bring this crew back have failed." "Why not send in the security force?" "We did." "I go up there to, basically, see what's going on." "I get there and a lot of people are already dead or missing." "Of course, he has no idea what he's about to deal with." "Hey." "Hey!" "He has to come here and sort of unpeel the layers and try and figure out what's going on." "I could tell you what's happening, but..." "I don't know if that'd really tell you what's happening." "All kinds of strange things start happening." "People start appearing, and everyone has these visitors." "How are you here?" "How do you mean?" " Who was it?" " My wife." "Dead?" "Solaris is generating characters that it's pulling from their subconscious." "She just appears at night in his room and seduces him." "Will she come back?" "Do you want her to?" "I like that everyone involved is intelligent enough to know that these are visitors." "It is a mistake to become emotionally engaged with one of them." " She's alive." " She is not human." "They're bright enough to know what's going on and avoid it for as long as they can." "All of our obsessions, memories, fears are being physically manifested." "It knows more about yourself than you do." "Do you remember where we first saw each other?" "On a train." "Any human being would fall prey to it." "Any human being would be affected by it." "I love you so much." "My character gets sucked into the idea of "I get it, she doesn't exist", and I'm perfectly willing to sacrifice a bit of reality just to have a night with my wife again." "Kelvin is being given a second chance." "But it's a second chance heavily freighted with a lot of the burdens of the first chance, and a lot of the possibilities for failure are still there." " Where are you going?" " I can't be here." "If I can sort out this relationship with my wife, who is with me again, inexplicably, then maybe that'll provide a way out." "What does Solaris want from us?" "If you keep thinking there is a solution... you'll die here." "This isn't really a remake of the Tarkovsky film, it's a different adaptation of the underlying novel by Stanislaw Lem." "It seemed to be about everything I'm interested in personally." "When people ask me about Steven Soderbergh," "I think of the director, the writer, the cinematographer, the editor." "Those are the functions he's filling on "Solaris"." "I'm glad that he's not doing what we do, acting." "Here's a filmmaker at a point in his career when he doesn't really need to accept input from anybody." "And yet he remains so open to any ideas or suggestions that could make it better." ""Collaboration" is not a dirty word for him." "A lot of directors don't want you to change even a comma in something they've written, and he almost encourages it, you know." "He really allows them to do their thing, and that is great in shaping the performances." "He's into throwing stuff around." "The last day of the shoot we're doing a day of improvising, just seeing what comes out, and he'll, I guess, use it if he likes it." "It's more like doing a rehearsal for a play." "It's very spontaneous, and very creative actually." "Steven wrote an incredibly demanding role that offers an actor absolutely nothing to hide behind." "It's really a challenging piece, and George has delivered such a courageous performance." "I think it's going to amaze people." "It's like nothing you've ever seen him do before." "I had no idea you felt like that." "I won't make it without you." "Then you won't make it." "Let go of me!" "No!" "The day I left and you said that you wouldn't make it, I didn't hear you because I was angry." "This is my chance to undo that mistake, and I need you to help me." "I actually lobbied for this job." "I sent him a letter and said I wanted to do it." "He was talking to another actor and he'd just finished the script, and I read it, sent him a letter that said "I don't know if I can do it, but I'd like a crack at it."" "Thank God the other actor passed." "It's so unlike anything he's ever done, and it's such a demanding part." "It's extremely emotional." "Do you wanna be here?" "Cos I need help." "I can't do this..." "I can't continue to do this on my own." "I've always had vast faith in George as an actor, and he's done some great stuff, but that isn't the type of character you'd associate him with." "And I think it is to his credit that he saw the value in doing this character." "It's to Steven's credit that he understood George well enough to trust him with this material." "He's really killingly funny." "He's the funniest actor I've ever worked with." "Between takes he's doing impersonations of anyone and everyone you choose to mention." "All rightie, who wants something to drink?" "He can remember reams of dialogue from movies or musicals, and he gets up and does routines, then the camera's rolling and, voom, he's there 100%." "I can't do that." "The way I figure it, it's one less eating'." "OK, lock it up, here we go." "And we all got better shots with Viola now." "And roll sound." "George is kinda the central planet, and the moons that orbit around him are lesser-known actors." "This was critical, I think, for the casting, cos he wanted these to be real people." "Even down to the casting of Rheya with Natascha McElhone - people will recognise her, but she's not a star in her own right." "She may be after this." " So anyway..." " So anyway." "Sorry." "Go to her." "Her name is Rheya." "She's a bit tricky, but I guess she's worthwhile." "Maybe she needs a shrink." "Everything she'd done, I thought "That girl, you can't take your eyes off her."" "She reminded me of the great European actresses of the '60s and '70s " "Jeanne Moreau and Dominique Sanda and people like that." "Smart, sexy, complicated women." "Women, not girls." "Women." "When do you wanna get hitched?" "I'm sorry." "It's so difficult for me." "Still?" "Is it something that I'm not doing?" "No." "No, no, no." "That's not the issue at all." "Cos, you know, if you keep putting this off, then in 15 or 20 years I'm just gonna stop asking." "Well, I've got ages then." "She's beautiful, but there's this really sad, haunting thing about her." "And once you have that automatically, she doesn't have to play it." "Chris, I've got to talk to you." "What's wrong?" "I'm not the person I remember." "Or at least I'm not sure I am." "We wanted somebody who wasn't gonna bring name-brand recognition to that role and would allow the audience to discover who her character was as the movie unfolds." "I was really having a tough time with Snow, picturing him, when I was writing it." "It was Debra Zane, our casting director, who said "I've been thinking about Jeremy Davies."" "And as soon as she said it, I thought "There you go."" "I needed someone who could generate a stratospherically weird performance." "That's my plan, you know?" "What do you... think?" "I'll have to think about that." "I think he's just an interesting actor." "He's one of those guys I really love watching in films." "It's so fun to watch him interact with Viola and George and Natascha, because he's just off on his own little planet." "Viola Davis I've worked with twice before." "She has incredible integrity on screen." "When she says something, you believe it." "Meet me in the lab in an hour." " I won't let you." " How you gonna stop us?" "How you gonna stop me taking her back?" "That's one of those actresses you get in a scene with and you just try to hold on." "There's a sense that you might not win an argument with her, and I needed somebody that powerful." "I need you to come to Solaris, Chris." "I don't know how to describe what we're experiencing up here." "We can't even agree amongst ourselves what is happening, or what to do about it." "Ulrich." "He's very nice, Ulrich." "I like him very much." "He's very good." "Basically, his character ends up by himself in one of these rooms, losing his mind." "So actors would go into a room and just talk to a video camera, and that was their audition." "Our casting director said "I think you should look at this tape." So I put the tape in..." "Maybe it's like a spider web, waiting for something to show up." "He photographs his dog listening to him talk." "It's a close-up of his dog with this really odd expression on his face as Ulrich does one of these monologues." "Never took even one shot of himself." "Something about the way this guy's mind worked sold me on him, that I wanna hang out with this guy." "Very rare that you get to work with actors like that, and very intimidating at times." "I'm awake." "Yes." "This is not a film that is like any other film that you can go and see." "I think what's special about the material is that it's left for each individual to determine what Solaris is and what it means." "It's the hardest thing I've ever done by far." "It's incredibly stimulating." "I'm a sucker for a great love story, and this film has at its core one of the most spectacular romances you can imagine." "But am I really Rheya?" "I don't know any more." "All I see is you." "I deliver perfection..." "and don't brag about it!" ":" "D" "Chris, what is it?" "I love you so much." "Don't you love me any more?" "I've made progress, and I recognise that." "But my wife, who I can't even convince to come here..." "Anything can set her off." "It could be the phone ringing, something on the news, something online, going shopping maybe." "A commemorative T-shirt in the window." "Itjust puts her right back in that place, and it's like all my progress - ripped away." "And I'm right back there with her." "I feel totally the opposite." "I see the TV and I see the Internet and I see those T-shirts and I feel nothing." "The more I see the images, the less I feel, the less I believe that it's real." "I mean, I think I'm supposed to feel something by now." "Don't you think so?" "Linda, this is Chris Kelvin." "I'm returning your call." "I have two times available this week;" "7am on Tuesday or 6.15pm on Thursday." "You can leave a message if either of those times are good for you." "Thank you." "Well, I know that's not true." "Because I know you, and I know it's not true." "Good." "I'm glad." "All right." "Let's pick this up on Wednesday." "Can I help you?" "We're looking for Dr Chris Kelvin." "Chris..." "I can't imagine what you must be thinking, getting a message like this." "I apologise if it seems melodramatic, but you are the only person I can..." "I can trust... in the situation." "I need your help." "I need you to come to Solaris, Chris." "I don't know how to describe what we are experiencing up here." "We can't even agree amongst ourselves what is... what is happening, or... what to do about it." "I suppose the... the most obvious solution would be to leave." "But none of us want to." "That's why you're getting this... this bizarre request." "I..." "I told the crew that your background and experiences made you the..." "the ideal candidate for this job." "Don't worry." "I didn't elaborate." "But it's true." "So, anyway..." "I, uh..." "I hope you will come to Solaris, Chris." "I-I think you need to." "You will see what I mean." "I wish I could be more specific about all of this, but... you know." "People are listening." "You can imagine the distress Dr Gibarian's message caused at DBA." "Why not send in the security force?" "We did." "We lost contact as they were approaching Solaris." "They haven't returned." "There must be some sort of on-board Al system." "They shut it down." "The company was hoping to solve this problem without involving a civilian." "Obviously these are extreme circumstances." "Some preparation is involved but you shouldn't have any trouble." "The flight itself is fully automated." "You'll be asleep most of the trip." "We feel confident that if you board the ship, you can negotiate their safe return." "Is that what everybody wants?" "Of course." "Find the probability of F." "OK, stop." "Go back." "Snow." "Kelvin, is it?" "Yeah." "Kelvin." "Right." "Oh, man." "Sorry about that, Kelvin." "Names, you know, just..." "For some reason." "It, uh..." "Yeah." "Uh..." "Well, uh, you wanna come in?" "I'm fine." "Whose blood is that, leading to the lab?" "Yeah." "Blood." "How 'bout that?" "Katarn." "He, um..." "Yeah." "Security forces showed up and he just took off, and they..." "Yeah." "Put a hole in his pot." "What happened to Gibarian?" "Yeah." "It was a suicide." "Who found him?" "I found him." "What happened to Rhys?" "Yeah, now, Rhys w..." "Huh." "We don't know, because the thing is, he kind of... disappeared." " Disappeared?" " Disappeared." " How did he disappear?" " Exactly." "Don't know." "We do know that he's not on the ship, uh, and that's... that's all we know." "Where's Dr Gordon?" "Dr Gordon." "She is in her room, and, um..." "Dr Gordon won't let you in her room." "Can you tell me what's happening here?" "I could tell you what's happening, but, uh..." "I don't know if that'd really tell you what's happening." "I just wanna talk to you." "You have to give me your word you won't try to come in." "All right." "Well?" " What happened to Gibarian?" " Didn't you talk to Snow?" " I wanted to hear your version." " There isn't any version." "He killed himself." "Why haven't you come home?" "What happened here?" "What did you find?" " Who are you representing?" " I'm the last effort to recover this mission, before they abandon this ship and everyone on board." "Until it starts happening to you, there's really no point in discussing it." "Hey." "Hey!" " Who else is here?" " Who else is here?" "I saw a boy." "Gibarian's son." " Michael." " How is that possible?" "I think that's why you're here." "I want a formal interview with you and Gordon." "I'll need your help with her." "Yeah." "All right." "Um..." "How much sleep do you need, Kelvin?" " How much sleep?" " Yeah." " How long can you go without sleep?" " Depends." "Well, when you do go to sleep," "I find I sleep much better with the door locked." "I was with the project when it was still with NASA, before it was sold to DBA." "I was trained in physics." "I was sent here to assess the economic potential of Solaris." "Whether or not it was a viable commercial property or possible energy source." "I was still compiling data when this shit started happening." "Did you run any tests on the food, air, water?" "I checked it 50 times." "There are no signs of contaminants or psychotropic compounds." "How about you?" "How are you doing?" "Depression." "Along with bouts of hypomania and primary insomnia." "Suggestions of agoraphobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, shock, fatigue, denial..." " Not unusual, given the circumstances." " I know." "All right." "Now, what can you tell me about what's happening here?" "Just that I want it to stop, but I want to stop it." "If I can stop it that means I'm smarter than it is." "You know you can go home, walk away from all of this." "I can guarantee it." "Yeah." "The thing is..." "Man, I would kill to go back there." "I'd... kill." "But Gordon?" "Gordon happens to be Gordon, you know?" "So, um..." "But I'll see what I can do." "We take off into the cosmos." "Ready for anything - solitude, hardship, exhaustion... death." "We're proud of ourselves." "But when you think about it, our enthusiasm's a sham." "We don't want other worlds." "We want mirrors." "So, anyway..." "How's the spawn?" "Oh, good, good." "He cries and shits in his pants every two hours." " I know the feeling." "When are you leaving?" " We've been postponed again." " I didn't hear that." "Nobody knows yet." "The governments are looking for a buyer." "I wish we could tell people what's happening." "You can tell me." "I'm a doctor." "Well, Doctor, as we study Solaris, the most interesting thing is it, um..." "Well, it seems to be reacting." "Almost like it knows it's being observed." "We can't explain it." "Are you listening to me?" "Chris?" " So anyway..." " So anyway." "Sorry." "Go to her." "Her name is Rheya." "She's a bit tricky but, um, I guess she's worthwhile." "Maybe she needs a shrink." "Don't we all?" "Don't blow it." "You start." "I did." "Really?" "All right, I'm gonna resist the impulse to ask you about the door knob." " Do you always resist your impulses?" " Not always." "Try poetry." ""And death shall have no dominion."" "Mm." "Thomas." "It's not a very happy poem, though." "Well, you didn't seem very happy when I saw you on the train." "I wasn't." "And tonight?" "It's early." "Goddammit!" "I'm awake." "Yes." "How are you here?" "How are you here?" "How do you mean?" "Where do you think you are?" "Where do you think you are right now?" "At home." "Where is home?" "With you, where we live." "And do you remember being anywhere else with me?" "Being together anywhere else?" " Our apartment." " Describe it." "It's dark." "It's very very dark." "And there are no paintings on the wall." "No pictures anywhere." "No pictures on the fridge, even, which I always thought was a bit strange." "Do you remember where we first saw each other?" "On a train." "Chris..." "I'm so happy to see you." "I love you so much." "Don't you love me any more?" "I have to check out something with the crew." "No!" "No!" " Don't leave me!" "Don't leave me!" " Why?" "Why?" " Why?" " I don't know." "I don't know." "It's OK." "It's OK." "Why are you sitting over there?" "Can I come and sit with you?" "Hey." "What was that?" "Yeah." "How 'bout that?" "Still workin' on that." "Where's your visitor?" "I don't know." "Stopped appearing." " Who's your visitor?" " My brother." "Who was it?" "My wife." "Dead?" "So what was her name?" "Will she come back?" "Do you want her to?" " No, it isn't." " Yes, it is." " No, it isn't." "It's crap." " Only one way to find out." "You can submit it to someone and see if they publish it." "That's not an indication of anything." "So no one else's opinion counts except for yours?" " Yeah." " That's insane." " "That's" insane." " I like it." "Brings out the red in my eyes." "So, did you show it to your father?" " Yeah." " And?" " And he liked it." " What'd he say?" " He said he liked it." " Well..." "He's a man who doesn't pass out compliments very easily." "That's something." " What's that tell you?" " Can we talk about something else?" "Please?" "All right." "When do you wanna get hitched?" "Every time I bring it up you make ajoke about it, and..." "I know, I know." "That's pathet..." "I'm sorry." "It's just..." "It-it's so difficult for me." "Still?" "Is it something that I'm not doing?" "No." "No, no, no." "That's not the issue at all." "Because, you know, if you keep putting this off, then in 15 or 20 years I'm just gonna stop asking." " Well, I've got ages, then." " Mm." "So apart from the poem that you quoted to me the night that we met..." "The night that you were hitting on me." "Oh, I don't think so." "What's your favourite poem?" "My favourite Dylan Thomas poem?" "Well, there's the, uh..." "Listen to this." "We have, uh..." "There's the..." "Well, there's the one he's most famous for, which starts, um..." " "There was a young man from Nantucket..."" " I knew it." "I just..." "I'm not marrying you." "You..." "Oh, you're marrying me." "Would we have to invite anyone else?" "There should be witnesses." "Otherwise nobody'd believe us." "When I was little I had this imaginary friend called Mikashelli, who used to live under the wallpaper in the corner of the room." "I used to go and visit." "I had a very intense relationship." "I was an only child." "As you know." "And, um..." "that was like my sibling." "That was the person I used to have battles with and fights with and everything." "What happened progressively over the next few years is that my mother stopped communicating with me." "She only communicated with me as Mikashelli, and wrote me these letters, and we didn't have conversations any more." " I mean, admittedly, she was certifiable." " Mm-hm." "But, um, yeah, that was a strange way to grow up." "You know, you're with the right man." "I so know that." "That's what's great." "Cos, man..." "Rheya..." "It's me." "It's me." "I don't remember that." "When did you get that?" "I got itjust before I came here." " Was I with you?" " No." "I don't actually remember anything." "I only remember you." "Have I been ill?" "Sort of." "And we've been apart?" " Yes." " For how long?" "A few years." " Were you alone?" " Yes." "Was that difficult?" "It was easier than being with someone else." "Did you think about me?" "Yes." "What is that, out there?" "Solaris." "Oh, my God, yes." "I can't remember how I got here." "Did I come here with you?" " I don't know how you got here." " What do you mean?" "I woke up and you were here." "So I wasn't here yesterday?" "No." "Right." "Getting dressed?" "People will notice tonight." "If you're not there, Rheya, people will notice." "I can put up with all of it, you know?" "The mood swings, the... restlessness, changing jobs every three months, all of it." "What I can't put up with is you hiding from me." "Why do you do that?" "Do you wanna be here?" "Cos I need help." "I can't do this..." "I can't "continue" to do this on my own." "The idea of God was dreamed up by man." "A silly animal with a small brain." "Even the limits that we put on it are human limits." " It designs, it creates..." " No, I'm talking about a higher intelligence." "No, hold it." "You're talking about something else - a man in a white beard." "Ascribing human characteristics to something that isn't human." "Aren't we all?" "Rheya, given all the elements of the known universe and enough time, our existence is inevitable." "It's no more mysterious than trees or sharks." "We're a mathematical probability, and that's all." "How do you explain that of all the creatures on this planet, only we are conscious of our own mortality?" "You can't explain that." "That doesn't mean there's a God." "Maybe religion has been bred into us." "The pope is a wonderful woman..." " Excuse me." " A nihilistic shrink." "Is there a school?" " Not yet." "You see?" "He's funny, at least." "Where you been?" "Away from those fucking people." "They're my friends." "Yeah." "Chris, I've got to talk to you." "What's wrong?" "I don't understand what's happening." "And if I do understand what's happening then I don't think I can handle it." "What do you mean?" "I mean..." "I mean..." "I'm not the person I remember." "Or at least I'm not sure I am." "I mean, I-I do remember things, but I don't remember being there." "I don't remember experiencing those things." "My..." "I..." "I mean, I'm really really... really really trying to understand." "And-and these, uh..." "These... these strange thoughts keep coming into my head, and I..." "I don't know where they're coming from, and I'm scared." "Um..." "And I-I don't know what's happening." "I-I don't know what's happening." " What do you think's happening?" " You need rest." " No..." " Take that." "You don't understand." "Because I don't think that I can live with this." "I don't understand what is happening now." "I mean, this-this-this..." "I remember this." "I have a memory of it." "But..." "But I don't." "I don't remember seeing it." "I don't..." "I don't remember being there." "I..." "Rheya, it's fatigue." "It's fatigue." "It's brought on by stress." "It's fatigue." "That's why you take this." "Right." "Yeah." "No, it is." "You'll be fine." "I'll talk to Gordon and Snow." "We'll go back to Earth." " Mm-hm." " And you're gonna be fine." "Mm-hm." "Mm." " I'm coming right back." " Right." " Are you gonna be all right here?" " Yeah." "Yeah." "Yeah." "This door locks from the inside." " Yeah." " You'll be perfectly safe in here." "Yeah." "You sure you're gonna be all right?" "You-you keep asking me that, actually." "Yes." "Yeah." "I'm fine." "I'm fine." "Stay here." "I was so worried, man." "About this guy." "But then you show up, and I'm even more-more worried about you." "Particularly after the first..." "when you sent the first one away." "Yeah, you were pretty..." "Pretty, uh..." "You deserved to be as freaked out as you were." "She can never know anything about that." "Ever." "You understand?" "No, no, no, no, no." "I wonder if they can get pregnant." "Where are you going?" " I can't be here." " What?" "You should have told me." " It wouldn't have made any difference." " Really?" "Chris, I had to!" "Obviously I had to." "You know that about me." "I had no idea you'd react like this." "Listen!" "Listen to me." "What's changed?" "I didn't even know you wanted one." "Yeah, why would I want one?" "Why would I want a child, or anything that would bring life into this house?" "!" " No, no, Chris." "No." "No." " Stop it." "Stop it." "Stop it." "Stop it!" "Stop it!" "No, Chris, you don't understand." "You have to understand." "I had no idea you felt like that." "I won't make it without you." " Then you won't make it." " Chris, no, please!" " Let go of me!" " No..." "No!" "Oh, my God." "Oh, no." "You wanna change Gordon's mind." "What if Gordon and your wife, right, your very nice wife..." "She's nice, right?" "Of course she's nice." "Your wife is nice." "They get together, right?" "Cos I'm thinkin'... women, right?" "Right now we got woman and woman, right?" "If we get "women", you know, together on the same team and all that shit, what happens?" "You know what happens." "All kinds of shit you can't explain happens." "Like the..." "But good shit, you know?" "Mysterious, but good." "Usually very good." "Things get solved, you know?" "That's my plan, you know?" "What do you... think?" "I'll have to think about that." ""And death shall have no dominion."" ""Dead men naked, they shall be one" "With the man in the wind and the west moon."" ""When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone," "They shall have stars at elbow and foot."" ""Though they go mad they shall be sane."" ""Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again."" ""Though lovers be lost love shall not."" ""And death shall have no dominion."" "You found me." "I came back for you." "I came back that day." "I'm sorry." "All right." "Enough hypothesising." "The visitors." "Are they or are they not made of subatomic particles?" "Subatomic particles..." "I'm not sure." "What do you think?" "I think... probably." "Stabilised by what?" "Guess." "I don't know." "Maybe... a Higgs field." "So... if we created a negative Higgs field and bombarded them with Higgs antibosons they might disintegrate?" "Maybe." "You know, it would take a lot of power." "Shut down all the noncritical ship functions." "This is just a theory, you know?" "We could be wrong." " Let's find out." " We'll take the findings back to Earth." "What if they follow us back?" "What if what's happening here happened on Earth on a mass scale?" "Don't you see that as a problem?" "I think it's a serious mistake to assume it's benign." "It's driving us crazy so it can watch us kill each other." "Is that really why you think they're here?" "Given its resources it could have done anything, including destroy us." "Meet me in the lab in an hour." " I won't let you." " How you gonna stop us?" " How you gonna stop me taking her back?" " Shall we pick up the other one on the way?" "Shouldn't be too hard." "We could chart its course." "Only take a day or so." "Chris, what's she talking about?" " Nothing." " Her oxygen might have run out." "Maybe they don't need any." "Chris, what are they talking about?" "You didn't tell her?" "Tell me what?" "Tell me what?" " You came before." " He got rid of you." "You what?" "I sent you away." "Into space." "Oh, my God." "Oh, my God." "No." "Rheya..." "Don't touch me." "Rheya, I didn't understand." "Rheya." "Rheya." "Hey." " Don't." " No." "No." "No." "Don't." "What were you trying to accomplish with that, exactly?" "Kelvin..." "It is a mistake to become emotionally engaged with one of them." "You're being manipulated." "If she were ugly, you wouldn't want her around." "That's why she's not ugly." "She's a mirror that reflects part of your mind." "You provide the formula." " She's alive." " She is not human." "Try to understand that, if you can understand anything." "What about your visitor?" "The one you're so ready to destroy without hesitation?" "Who is it? "What" is it?" "Does it feel?" "Can it touch?" "Does it speak?" "We are in a situation that is beyond morality." "Hm?" "Your wife is dead." "How do you know?" "How can you be definitive about a construct you do not understand?" "She's a copy." "A facsimile." "And she's seducing you all over again." "You're sick." "We are not taking her back with us." "Leave the light off." "You think you're dreaming me." "You're not Gibarian." "No?" "Who am I, then?" " A puppet." " And you're not?" "Well, maybe you're my puppet." "But like all puppets, you think you're actually human." "That's the puppet's dream - being human." "Why did you kill yourself?" "It seemed like a good idea at the time." "Now I think I made a mistake." " What about your son?" " That's not my son." "My son is on Earth." "And that's not your wife." "They are part of Solaris." "Remember that." "What does Solaris want from us?" "Why do you think it has to want something?" "This is why you have to leave." "If you keep thinking there is a solution... you'll die here." "I can't leave her." "I'll figure it out." "Do you understand what I'm trying to tell you?" "There are no answers." "Only choices." "Rheya?" "Rheya?" "Rheya?" "Rheya?" "Gordon!" " What happened?" " She drank liquid oxygen." "She's dead." "No." "I never get used to them." "These... resurrections." "Oh, no." "No." "Why'd you do that?" "Rheya?" "Don't call me that." "There are two components." "A high-energy proton accelerator and a matter phase modulator." "By adjusting the tuning frequency I get an enhancement of Higgs antibosons at 90GHz and an almost pure beam at 160GHz." "I used it on mine." "What happens?" "They disappear, back where they came from." "It's what she wants." "I won't let her do it." "She'll come to me when you're asleep." "Then I won't sleep." "Don't you see?" "I came from your memory of her." "That's the problem." "I'm not a whole person." "In your memory you get to control everything." "So even if you remember something wrong, I am predetermined to carry it out." "I'm suicidal because that's how you remember me." "My voice sounds the way it does because that's how you remember it." "I don't believe that we're predetermined to relive our past." "I think that we can choose to do it differently." "The day I left and you said you wouldn't make it, I didn't hear you because I was angry." "This is my chance to undo that mistake." "And I need you to help me." "But am I really Rheya?" "I don't know any more." "All I see is you." "All I see is you." "It created me." "And yet I can't communicate with it." "It must hear me, though." "It must know what's happening to me." "And you and I, we would have to have some kind of... an arrangement, some kind of... unspoken understanding... that I'm not really a human being." "No, Rheya." "Chris..." "Chris, I wish you would just let them use the device on me." "And then you can go back to Earth and you can tell everybody all about Solaris." "No." "It's the only solution that makes any sense." "We could never have a life together on Earth, Chris." "You know that." "It would be impossible." "And this?" "What kind of life is this?" "Trapped here." "It's not a life." "I don't know what to call it." "It's what we have." "It's enough for me." "You need to rest." "You're going to make yourself ill." " I don't care." " Just lie down for a moment." "Please, Chris." "You have to rest." "You know I'm not human so I don't understand what you're afraid of." "Of course you can use the device." "It's not murder." "You said that yourself." "You're the one who had the idea in the first place." "Chris doesn't trust me." "He..." "Chris, don't blame Gordon." "It's not her fault." "I begged her to do it." "It's better this way." "I found the suicide note." "I went through your things." "The page torn from the book of poems." "And I realised..." "I'm not her." "I'm not Rheya." "I know you loved me, though." "I know that." "I felt that." "And I love you." "I wish we could just live inside that feeling forever." "Maybe there's a place where we can." "But I know it's not on Earth." "And it's not on this ship." "That's all I can say right now." " You killed her!" " Not her." "It." " It's murder!" " Kelvin, she begged me." "It wasn't painful." " She'll be back!" " No." " Why would you let her do it?" "!" " Kelvin!" "It's not human!" "Whatever it is, it's not human, and I'm threatened by that." "And I wanna win." "I want humans to win." "Whose side are you on?" " What are you doing?" " Putting the Al back online." "I'm going home." "Gordon." "Gordon!" " I knew it." " How long you think he's been dead?" "Hard to say because of the cold." "He attacked me." "There I am." "Somehow, there I am." "And I couldn't tell you how I'm there, or who I am or what's going on." "But before I can get to that, what's this over here?" "Comin' at me." "What..." "what are you tryin' to do?" "Oh, I see." "You're tryin' to kill me." "Yeah, confusing." "I'll tell you somethin' confusing." "Bingo, there you are, and my welcoming committee dropped his knife and it's good night." "And, oh, by the way, after all that I find, uh... this, uh, whoever this..." "I get my first good look at it and it happens to be..." "I survive the first 30 seconds of this... life, whatever you wanna call it..." "by killing someone." "And, oh, ah, by killing someone who happens to be me." "See, most people..." "I would think most people in this position would be, like "This... ah."" ""I don't know." However, this is at least..." "This is an incredible opportunity." "This is..." "What if this is a gift?" "I'm a gift." "Hey." "I say we use the Higgs device on him." "Mm." "Mm-mm." "I don't think you really have time." "Why would you say that?" "Well, you know, ever since we used the famous Higgs device," "Solaris started taking on mass exponentially." "You might have noticed how we're a lot closer to it." "That would be because everything within its gravitational field - it's pulling it in." "Ah, and, yeah, sorry." "By the way, the Higgs device also drained the fuel cell reactors." "Uh, if..." "Can I make a suggestion?" "I mean, this is..." "You can do what you want, but I would just lock me in here really tight and take the "Athena" back." "Wear your seat belt." "Switch to internal power." "Start fuel cell operational diagnostic." "Service check on LGA." "Point and calibrate high-beam antenna." "Depressurising." "Spin all turbines to standby." "Disengage coupling interlocks and all docking couplers." "Vent and seal all main engine propellant lines." "Earth." "Even the word sounded strange to me now." "Unfamiliar." "How long had I been gone?" "How long had I been back?" "Did it matter?" "I tried to find the rhythm of the world where I used to live." "I followed the current." "I was silent and attentive." "I made a conscious effort to smile... nod... stand... and perform the millions of gestures that constitute life on Earth." "I studied these gestures until they became reflexes again." "But I was haunted by the idea that I remembered her wrong." "That somehow I was wrong about everything." "Depressurising." "Spin all turbines to standby." "Disengage coupling interlocks and all docking couplers." "Vent and seal all main engine propellant lines." "Rheya!" "Rheya?" "Chris?" "Chris?" "Am I alive... or dead?" "We don't have to think like that any more." "We're together now." "Everything we've done is forgiven." "Everything." "Visiontext Subtitles:" "Rob Colling" "I deliver perfection..." "and don't brag about it!" ":" "D" "This whole thing came about because a friend of mine who was working at Fox asked me one day "Are you interested in science fiction?"" "And I said "Sort of." "A specific kind of science fiction, but I'm very particular."" "Action." "Once we had acquired the novel, we had literally just sat down and said "What do we wanna do with this?" "Should I write it?" "Should we hire a writer?"" ""How are we gonna break this down?"" "And we got a call, that Steven had always wanted to do this film." "And it was like a godsend." "They came to me at the studio." "Steven, having read or heard that we had acquired the project, just wanted to make it." "He was passionate about the material and wanted to meet with us to see if we had a common vision for it." " What do I see here?" " Well, just this." "What I'm thinkin' is, if you do this and you turn, and from there you can see the things." "But what I'm gonna do, I think, is play your reaction, not show what you're reacting to, and then cut in there..." "I might pull the wall out and get our crane go in, so that I can bring him in and then drop down, and that's how you see the body." "I don't wanna do it in a cut." "Steven came to us and we had a meeting, and while we talked about the project - and Steven had a very different visual tableau for the movie than we'd envisioned - he had the same themes throughout, and I think movies are ultimately about themes." "I actually lobbied for this job." "I sent him a letter." "He was talking to another actor." "We'd just finished "Ocean's Eleven", and he'd just finished the script, and I read it cos it was over at the company, and I sent him a letter that said "I don't know if I can do it, but I'd like to take a crack at it."" "It became a situation, basically, where he said "I'm ready to do this."" ""As an actor, I'm ready to do it and I want to do it, and I think it's good for me to do."" "And once he said that, I said "Fantastic, let's do it."" "My interest in "Solaris" was really driven by the ideas at the centre of the book, which I tried to expand upon as best I could." "You come here... and do one of those." "Marker." "What's exciting about what Steven does is every single film he does, he tries, basically, a completely different genre." "And this one's sort of a mixture of a bunch of 'em." "But the one thing you'll take note of as you watch the film is how still it is." "So it isn't a lot of great flashy action." "You look up." "Just before I pass you, that would be." "I'm so excited about the element of surprise when I see it, cos I know I'm gonna be surprised whatever Steven does." "Because the whole process of making it has been quite mysterious, and Steven has it all in his mind, and one isn't necessarily privy to that." "And I love that, cos it's quite freeing in a way." "Hey." "Hey!" "There was no simple shot." "Every shot in it had some element that kept it from being easy, whether it was a technical element, or a performance thing..." "Every day I thought I'd get to something that would go quickly or easily." "I was always foiled." "I was purposely trying to keep myself open to exploring it on the spot, and not trying to nail stuff down." "I didn't wanna come in and tell the actors "OK, you're there and you say this..."" "So I was trying to do my homework in terms of writing down how all these things should fit together, but you never know until you put it together." "And... action." "The setup is sort of classical, in the sense that George Clooney's character, Chris Kelvin, is sent to try and recover what is basically an abandoned space mission because he knows one of the people on board" "and previous attempts to bring this crew back have failed." "He doesn't know what he's walking into." "He's shown some tapes of transmissions that have been sent down from Solaris, and itjust looks like these people are..." "the wheels are comin' off." "Hi, Chris." "I'm sorry I'm not here to meet you." "I still have a little time until I..." "I want to tell you something." "The beauty of Solaris is that Solaris is not a planet." "It's a planet-like object that is an intelligent organism." "The moment he enters that station, you know there is greatjeopardy in there." "You don't understand its nature right away - you think there could be anything, a monster, a murderer - and it turns out that the jeopardy is to one's sanity." " I can't stay here." " What?" "You should've told me." " It wouldn't have made any difference." " Really?" "I had to do it, Chris." "I had to." "You know that." "The dilemma that they're all confronting is that Solaris is generating characters that it's pulling from their subconscious or their past." "Daddy?" "I mean, we're not even sure at times what Solaris has generated." "In the case of one character we never get to find out." "She's a mirror that reflects part of your mind." "You provide the formula." " She's alive." " She is not human." "But it knows more about yourself than you do." "To see George literally be a different actor than I've ever seen him was really exciting to watch, to watch him just change." "It's an actors' piece." "The hardest thing I've ever done by far." "And the scariest, as an actor, because you feel way out there on a limb." "But if you're gonna do that, you do that with Steven." "If the people George is interacting with aren't as strong as he is, you don't have a movie." "She begged me, Kelvin!" "Then the trick is, because there aren't very many characters, finding people who are really distinctive and really strong, so that you feel the tension." "Natascha McElhone is somebody that I'd sort of noticed and had my eye on since she did the Merchant Ivory film some years ago." "Because it was such a crucial part, I had her come in and read with George." " I'll go with you." " No." "No, no..." "Yes." "Please." "Please." " No, please, don't." " It's OK." "It's OK." "She reminded me of the great European actresses of the '60s and '70s." "It was Debra Zane, our casting director, who said one day "I've been thinking about Jeremy Davies."" "He's so unique." "There's just nobody quite like him." "I wouldn't..." "No, she won't..." "she won't talk about it." "And the thing is..." "I'm not even sure if it's a person." "For Gibarian I wanted someone not well known to American audiences." "I got this tape from Ulrich." "He photographs his dog listening to him talk." "It's a close-up of his dog with this really odd expression on his face as Ulrich does one of these monologues." "I've come to hate it here." "There's only one way out of its reach for us." "Something about the way this guy's mind worked sold me on him." "Viola Davis I've worked with twice before." " We'll take the findings back to Earth." " What if they follow us back?" "When I decided to turn one of the characters in the script from a male to a female," "I immediately thought of Viola, cos she's just so strong." "Where to go with the design aspect of the movie was obviously the subject of a lot of discussion between myself and the producers and Phil Messina, the production designer, and Milena Canonero, the costume designer, and me, the cameraman." "We didn't wanna be specific about how far in the future it was, didn't want it to feel like it was the distant future..." "We always knew we wanted to take a realistic approach to what the ship would look like, as far as the spaces being small, showing a lot of the workings of the ship..." "We looked at stuff from the international space station, and that was a lot of the inspiration, because in the space station there's a lot of exposed "gack", there's a lot of stuff kludged to the walls," "you do see a lot of articulation in the structure, in the textures, there's a lot going on with the ship." "But it has an organisation that all, hopefully, makes a lot of sense." "There's nothing you can just buy, so everything has to be manufactured." "So we have a warehouse where we have sculptors, the painters, a welding shop..." "One piece would take..." "Say one rib in one of the corridors..." "First it would be drawn by the art department, then it would go to the sculptors, then the sculpted piece goes to the mould makers who make a mould of it, because there's notjust one piece, there's, like, a hundred of each one of those." "Then it goes to the carpenters and we erect everything." "The first thing we did, we had to open up the stage floor for the core of the spaceship and go down six feet, pour concrete footers, put in retaining walls, and that'd be the hub." "Then after that we started with the core coming off of it, then laid out for the radial corridor, which is this part down here." "That was seven weeks ago." "We've had approximately 175 people working on this." "It's been 24-hour days, six days a week." "The bottom line is, you want it to look right." "Or at least right as you imagine it." "The planet itself was intended to be a character in the movie, and very subtly it needed to change over the course of the entire film, starting from a gentle, sort of dormant state, and then slowly progressing into a violent fury." "By the end of the film, it's sort of chaos." "I know Steven wanted the audience to ask questions about what was happening to the planet." "You know, is it a supernatural event, or is it some sort of spiritual being?" "By everybody coming together, we all made something that we were very proud of." "When you have a spaceship like ours that has the amount of detail in it, we had to go to the next step, which is up to 4K resolution." "So it's really a lot more data, a lot more pixels in terms of resolution." "It's more resolution than actually the film is itself." "When you composite those in, you really get the bang for your buck in terms of quality." "We also worked on a sequence where the Rheya character has committed suicide and she comes back to life in front of everyone's eyes." "So there was a creation of a wound from drinking liquid oxygen in quite graphic detail where the flesh was eaten through in her cheek and neck." "The Kelvin character carries her back to the bedroom and we get a real close look at her regeneration as she comes back to life." "There's a sequence where Kelvin's travelling on a train - those were all done on a bluescreen stage with backgrounds that were shot in Chicago." "There's a lot of little things that Steven enjoys, just polishing his movie with us." "The exterior stuff for the train was one of my favourite things in this entire movie." "We built a train, we put it on a rig, and we towed it around." "Steven wanted to have a refrigerated area on the spaceship where bodies would be stored." "What was really interesting for us is as we were adding humidity to the air we got this really cool-looking mist coming out of the vents, which Steven really liked." "So we decided to shoot like that." "It's not an action film." "People need to know that going in." "But that's not a fault." "It's a very positive thing." "Because this is not a film that is like any other film that you can go and see in a theatre." "Not this year, not in the last ten years and probably not for the next ten years." "This is the different movie." "This is science fiction the way science fiction used to be in the '50s and '60s especially, where it's a fiction of ideas, and it's a fiction of people." "It's not about robots and lasers and all that." "I'm not really interested in making a film about technology, what technology is gonna be like a few decades from now." "What appealed to me about this story was that it wasn't about that at all." "It was - it is - a love story." "It's the most ambitious movie I've attempted, conceptually." "Good." "All right." "Steven, that's a wrap." "OK, that's a wrap." "Thanks, everybody."