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MEANING OF LIFE
When man is happy the meaning of life and other eternal questions don't interest him. Those are the questions to be asked at life's end. We don't know when the end will come, so we hurry. The happiest people are those who never ask these damned questions. Questioning means a desire to know. But to preserve basic Truth we need mysteries. The mysteries of happiness .... death .... love. Thinking about it is like knowing when you're going to die. Not knowing that day makes us practically immortal. From the Russian Film, Solaris (1972)The film is based on a science-fiction novel by Polish writer Stanislav Lem. This is a reflection on the themes of cosmos, Earth, man, human conscience, life, death and responsibility before the future. Solaris is a planet, capable of materializing the earth peoples reminiscences about their home which they left on Earth and their relatives who had died long ago. This mysterious planet had intrigued people for years. The Solaris Ocean is a gigantic live brain whose riddle the films protagonists are trying to solve. But all their attempts contact the unknown civilization end in failure. Meanwhile, strange things happen on the space station... |