Solaris
We never truly know another person. We only know the version of them we carry inside us.
Picking up the coldest setting and making the most intimate feeling about grief and guilt. It uses the scientific fiction genre to ask a question of “If the person you lost came back, would you deserve them?”
Ocean doesn’t give Kris what he wants, it gives him what he cannot escape. Hari returns not as a gift but as a question he never answered honestly while she was alive.
Apollinaire sits quietly in the background, watching how the film recaps his same vision of love that stays even after it leaves.
The soil his mother washes away, homeland, origin, innocence. We spend our lives accumulating guilt and loss. At the end what we truly long is for someone to wash it clean. Just to tend to it with quiet hands and no judgement.
Solaris simply asks the question. Is love that cannot let go still love? Is a home that exists only in memory still home?