ARTICLE: The Ritual Drama of Solaris (2002)

One of the many reasons I pay careful attention to commentary tracks on DVDs is to hear writers and directors explain what the film they made is supposed to be about. And one thing that always puzzles me is when the creators don't seem exactly sure what their film is saying.

The most egregious example of this is Dark City - none of the principals on the commentary track seem entirely sure what the film means. Perhaps it would be better to ask Andrew Mason- producer of Dark City and the nearly-concurrent Matrix- what the story was about, since it is so rife with blatant Masonic themes. Mason also produced Red Planet, which plays like another piece of blatant Masonic ritual drama.

Steven Soderbergh seemed equally puzzled in interviews when promoting his remake of Solaris. He offered a number of vague interpretations in a manner that seemed to demonstrate he was genuinely unsure about the ultimate meaning of the story...


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