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Originally Posted by Redcarmoose  I have been known for an over active imagination and when you put that together with film which already have imagination somtimes these things happen. I agree that they wanted to show his memory. That is the most easy and upfront thing to believe. But if he wanted us to note that it was a synthetic world made by the planet then he would have placed strange things that do not look right, like the dress she was wearing. Just little things to show you it is all not real. Do you think those little clues are in the begining of Solaris? I have looked and thought I saw things. I don't know, just guessing?
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I don't recall if there was that kind of foreshadowing in the tarkovsky film. I don't own a copy - next time i see it I'll look.
I can tell you there was nothing like that in the book. In the book, Kelvin reluctantly accepts a job, and spends a lot of time in libraries reading background material to you.
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Originally Posted by Redcarmoose The movie has left me with many questions. Why was the response from the Planet these wierd memory creatures? Are they the true problematic thoughts in the back of the persons mind. Was it just a dramatic twist to have his dead wife show up. Or was this place another place? Why was a great question. It was a kind of mental defense from unwanted strangers? Would everyone get the same treatment till they went crazy? Just a well written plot which may have it's roots in the study of modern psychological institutions.
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That's possible. Lem was training to be a doctor before he became an author, and his first novel was a semi-autobiographical work titled "The Hospital of the Transfiguration" -- I haven't read it yet, though.
Another theory is that maybe these visitors are manifestations of people that the people on the research station want to see. Kelvin misses his dead wife, etc.
