Solaris (1972)
Jüri Järvet: Doktor Snaut, kibernetik
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Dr. Snaut : Science? Nonsense! In this situation mediocrity and genius are equally useless! I must tell you that we really have no desire to conquer any cosmos. We want to extend the Earth up to its borders. We don't know what to do with other worlds. We don't need other worlds. We need a mirror. We struggle to make contact, but we'll never achieve it. We are in a ridiculous predicament of man pursuing a goal that he fears and that he really does not need. Man needs man!
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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.
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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..."
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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.
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Dr. Snaut : Don't turn a scientific problem into a common love story.
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Dr. Snaut : We don't want to conquer space at all. We want to expand Earth endlessly. We don't want other worlds; we want a mirror. We seek contact and will never achieve it. We are in the foolish position of a man striving for a goal he fears and doesn't want. Man needs man!
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Dr. Snaut : Sometimes you become a clown without wanting to.
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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?
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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.
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Dr. Snaut : Don't tell me you haven't tried a rope or a hammer. Did you happen to throw the inkwell like Luther? No?
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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.
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Dr. Snaut : What a ghastly sight. I can never get used to all these resurrections.
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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.
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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.
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Kris Kelvin : I think I'm a little sick.
Dr. Snaut : There's nothing wrong with you. You just won't take advice.
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Dr. Snaut : This will all end badly.
Kris Kelvin : Well, what do you propose I do?
Dr. Snaut : Nothing.
