Solaris

After three Tarkovsky films, with this being my fourth, this is the one that has left me with the strongest feeling of not really knowing what I experienced or why I experienced it the way I did. I feel like I need to revisit this film someday—months from now, maybe even years from now. Perhaps I’ll need to watch it more than once before I can reach any kind of final conclusion. While I find it difficult to fully grasp what it is about or what themes it explores, I can't help but think that maybe it’s about humanity’s constant struggle to find meaning, much like the way I feel right now. Or perhaps it’s about how we always return to and cling to the moments we cherish, or to the things we never got to say—wanting to relive those moments in the hope that maybe, somehow, things could have been different. I don't know... Without a doubt, a film that leaves you with this kind of mental, emotional, and existential emptiness creates an utterly unique experience—something almost impossible to replicate.