Solaris (1972)

Donatas Banionis: Kris Kelvin, psikholog

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• Kris Kelvin : You mean more to me than any scientific truth.

• Dr. Snaut : When man is happy, the meaning of life and other eternal themes rarely interest him. These questions should be asked at the end of one's life.

  Kris Kelvin : But we don't know when life will end. That's why we're in such a hurry.

  Dr. Snaut : Don't rush. The happiest people are those who are not interested in these cursed questions.

• Hari : Did you ever think of me?

  Kris Kelvin : Only when I was sad.

• Kris Kelvin : Whenever we show pity, we empty our souls.

• Kris Kelvin : Shame, the feeling that will save mankind.

• Dr. Snaut : Here!

  [picks up a book] 

  Dr. Snaut : "They come at night. But one must sleep sometime." That's the problem. Mankind has lost the ability to sleep. You'd better read. I'm a little excited.

  Kris Kelvin : "I know only one thing, señor. When I... When I sleep, I know no fear, no hope, no trouble, no bliss, Blessings on him he who invented sleep. The common coin that purchases all things, the balance that levels shepherd king, fool and wise man. There is only one bad thing about sound sleep. They say it closely resembles death."

  Dr. Snaut : "Never before, Sancho, have I heard you..."

• Kris Kelvin : To ask is always the desire to know. Yet the preservation of simple human truths requires mystery. The mysteries of happiness, death, and love. To think about it is to know one's day of death.

  Dr. Snaut : Maybe you're right, but try not to think about all that now.

  Kris Kelvin : Not knowing that day makes us practically immortal.

• Kris Kelvin : Guibariane did not die of fear, he died out of shame. The salvation of humanity is in its shame!

• Anri Berton, pilot : Knowledge is only valid when it's based on morality.

  Kris Kelvin : Man is the one who renders science moral or immoral. Remember Hiroshima?

  Anri Berton, pilot : Then don't make science immoral.

• Kris Kelvin : See, I love you. But love is a feeling we can experience but never explain. One can explain the concept. You love that which you can lose: Yourself, a woman, a homeland. Until today, love was simply unattainable to mankind, to the earth. Maybe we are here to experience people as a reason for love.

• Kris Kelvin : Well, anyway, my mission is finished. And what next? To return to Earth? Little by little everything will return to normal. I'll find new interests, new acquaintances, but I won't be able to devote all of myself to them.

• Kris Kelvin : Why are we being tortured like this?

  Dr. Snaut : In my opinion, we have lost our sense of the cosmic. The ancients understood it perfectly. They never would have asked why or what for. Remember the myth of Sisyphus?

• Kris Kelvin : Remember Tolstoy? His suffering over the impossibility of loving mankind as a whole? How much time has passed since then? Somehow I can't figure it out. Help me.

• Kris Kelvin : Don't worry, I won't think you're insane.

  Dr. Snaut : Insane? God, you know absolutely nothing. Insane... that would be a blessing.

• Kris Kelvin : Didn't you say research should continue at any price?

  Anri Berton, pilot : You want to destroy that which we are presently incapable of understanding? Forgive me but am not advocate of knowledge at any price.

• Kris Kelvin : You know, it's really embarrassing but for some reason... I've completely forgotten your face.

• Mat Krisa Kelvina : You don't look well. Are you happy?

  Kris Kelvin : Somehow that concept seems irrelevant here.

• Kris Kelvin : Suffering makes life seem dismal and suspicious. But I wont accept that, no I wont accept that. Is that which is indispensable to life also harmful to it? No, It's not harmful. Of course it's not harmful.

• Kris Kelvin : The only thing left for me is to wait. I don't know what for. New miracles?

• Kris Kelvin : What was that?

  Dr. Snaut : I don't know. Then again, we've managed to determine a few things. Who was it?

  Kris Kelvin : She died 10 years ago.

  Dr. Snaut : What you saw was the materialization of your conception of her. What was her name?

  Kris Kelvin : Hari.

  Dr. Snaut : Everything began after we started experimenting with radiation. Wehit the Ocean's surface with strong X-ray beams. But it - incidentally, consider yourself lucky. After all, she's part of your past. What if it had been something you had never seen before, but something you had thought or imagined?

  Kris Kelvin : I don't understand.

  Dr. Snaut : Evidently the Ocean responded to our heavy radiation with something else. It probed our minds and extracted something like islands of memory.

• Kris Kelvin : Get some sleep.

  Hari : I don't know how to sleep. It's not sleep. It's somehow around me. It's as if it wasn't just inside of me, but much farther away.

• Dr. Sartorius : You've got a superb specimen.

  Kris Kelvin : That's my wife.

  Dr. Sartorius : Wonderful. Perfect. Then take a blood sample from your wife.

  Kris Kelvin : Why?

  Dr. Sartorius : It'll sober you up a bit.

• Dr. Snaut : If you see something out of the ordinary, something besides me and Sartorius, try not to lose your head.

  Kris Kelvin : What would I see?

  Dr. Snaut : I don't know, that sort of depends on you.

• Hari : Listen... I don't know myself at all. I don't remember. When I close my eyes, I can't recall my face. And you?

  Kris Kelvin : What?

  Hari : Do you know yourself?

  Kris Kelvin : Like all humans.

• Kris Kelvin : Gibarian was not frightened. There are worse things. He died of hopelessness. He thought all this was happening only to him.

  Dr. Sartorius : My God! All these heartbreaking lamentations are nothing but second-rate Dostoyevsky.

• Kris Kelvin : There are so few of us. A few billion altogether. A handful! Maybe we're here in order to experience people as a reason for love.

• Kris Kelvin : Your position is absurd. Your so-called courage is inhuman.

• Kris Kelvin : When you turn into an utter cripple with no arms or legs, call us. We'll empty your chamber pot.

• Kris Kelvin : She's sleeping. Will she follow me?

  Dr. Snaut : Don't lock the door.

  Kris Kelvin : What door? It's just an apparition.

• Kris Kelvin : What does it matter when you're worth more to me than any science could ever be?

• Kris Kelvin : I think Solaristics has reached an impasse as a result of irresponsible daydreaming. I'm interested in the truth, but you want to turn me into a biased supporter. I don't have the right to make decisions based on impulses of the heart. I'm not a poet.

• Moddard, Ground Control : Don't worry about a thing. Have a great trip. Send our regards.

  Kris Kelvin : When is liftoff?

  Moddard, Ground Control : You're already flying, Kris! Take care.

• Kris Kelvin : I'm Kelvin, the psychologist. It looks like you weren't expecting me. Did you receive the radiogram?

• Kris Kelvin : I think I'm a little sick.

  Dr. Snaut : There's nothing wrong with you. You just won't take advice.

• Kris Kelvin : I burned the blood with acid, but it's restoring itself.

  Dr. Sartorius : Regeneration? In essence, immortality - Faust's problem.

• Hari : That woman in the white coat hated me.

  Kris Kelvin : Don't make things up. She died before you and I met.

  Hari : I don't understand why you're deceiving me.

• Dr. Snaut : This will all end badly.

  Kris Kelvin : Well, what do you propose I do?

  Dr. Snaut : Nothing.

• Dr. Sartorius : So, it looks like our guest of honor isn't showing up.

  Kris Kelvin : Why?

  Dr. Sartorius : Maybe he has guests.