as if to to say that only one out of many entering a mental asylum can ever hoped to be cured. Indeed, a very haunting! Almost like the work of Bergman, Ophuls, Kubrick, and Welles, Soderbergh brings a well-crafted mysticism to the screen. It's living on regrets, hoping they could rewind the clock backward to bring about changes to events that are gradually driving the victims to complete madness. It's reliving a past and letting memories play tricks on the minds. Earth, presumably, is a symbol of normality! It's about the existential exploration of the minds' sufferings, almost as if the memories of the human mind are being driven to a test. Oh yes, the psychological intent of the film's contents is truly complex and we are slowly led to see who will finally be capable of making the right choice, and escape insanity. These may all be psychologists, but they all seem to exhibit signs of stress and paranoia. At other times, Soderbergh provides a more solid spectrum allowing the viewers to grasp intellectually the conflicts faced by the human minds - Kelvin, Snow and Gordon - as a result of some traumatically emotional events. There are dazzlingly and ecstatically artistic visual moments to offer that dreamlike stance. Silence comes with such intensity that it works very proficiently in this film. The film is slow in pace and lengthy, with stretches of tedious silence, letting the imagination of the viewers try understand what happened to each of the characters seen, or heard. But I was truly mesmerized by this film's approach to what, I think, is the study of human insanity slipping beyond saving. Awesome! Has Steven Soderbergh succeeded in sprucing up Andrei Tarkovski's 1972 psychological cult sci-fi classic to make it worth the while to pay a regular price of a tix? Can't really say, as I've never seen the Russian version. It's a film that totally relies on the characters' emotions and reactions. Don't expect to see the usual Hollywood sweet romantic tale either! This film focuses on the psychological journey faced by the despaired and unstable minds. Nope, this film is not strictly a ghost story, nor is it a Star Trek adventure story to interest most science-fiction craving fans. It's even more complex to decipher on screen. The state of human minds has always been so abstract and never easy an easy subject to comprehend.
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