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Posted: 1 year, 9 months ago at Aug 17 17:00

I still haven't gotten around to watching "The Mirror" but I plan on re-watching "Solaris" this weekend... such a great story.

Posted: 1 year, 9 months ago at Aug 20 18:33

"The Mirror" is one of the most difficult movies I've seen, but I like it nevertheless.

Posted: 1 year ago at May 13 4:50

This would probably be my order too.

Posted: 9 months, 1 week ago at Aug 11 15:33

He is god

Posted: 2 months, 2 weeks ago at Mar 3 21:11

I have too much awe for Andrey Tarkovskiy to use the word "worst" near his name (implying implicitly that something by him is bad).

But my order would be very close. I would put on the top "Solaris" and "Mirror", but wouldn't be able to choose between them. "Solaris" is somewhat underappreciated or misappreciated (as just sci-fi movie). I must admit that I needed to watch it four times to understand it (but, may be, still not fully). It is about the same problems as "Stalker", but without too much talk.

I used to think that the main source of the difficulty of "Mirror" is its highly non-linear narrative. But since than telling a story in a jump forth-back way was used so many times that I thought the movie buffs get used to it. Of course, one needs to know this and that from the soviet history, but these things are not hard to find on the web.

Posted: 2 months, 2 weeks ago at Mar 4 17:00

Thanks a lot MelancolyBaby for your post. You are right there is no "worst" with Tarkovskiy. I like "Solaris", but I read the book by Lem before I watched the movie and as the director's vision was so different, it was a bit difficult for me to appreciate it fully. And I don't need the web to find out about the soviet history, as I come from Poland and actually REMEMBER the communist regime. :)