--- Chris Doss <itschris13 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Why is Tarkovsky getting all the credit? What about
> Lem?! :)
>
>
Well, Lem should get a lot of credit. I used to be one of those people that thought Science Fiction could not be "serious" literature, but Stanislaus Lem (and later JG Ballard) changed my opinion on that.
The first time I saw the movie, I hadn't read the novel, which is a mistake in this case. I found following the movie difficult..A lot of Tarkovsky's movies in English had the hell edited our of them, which doesn't help. I wasn't able to concentrate on the nuances, because I was too busy trying to make sense of the story. In any case, I read the novel, and I am glad I did because the novel takes up a number of the themes that the movie does not...and, of course, is brilliant in its own right.
Anyway, you are right. Lem's novel deserves as much attention as the movie and Lem and Tarkovsky are like a match made in heaven. Lem and Sonderberg, unfortunately, are going to be like a match made in, well, Hollywood, I am afraid.
Thomas
===== "A question is always the desire to know, and to preserve simple human truths, we need secrets. The secrets of happiness, death, love."
>From the movie "Solaris" by Andrei Tarkovsky
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