Comparing the Supernatural Aliens of “Solaris” and “2001: A Space Odyssey”
The annals of science fiction cinema are filled with a plethora of mysterious extraterrestrial entities, often designed to challenge the human intellect and imagination. Two of the most enigmatic and iconic of these entities are found in Stanisław Lem and Andrei Tarkovsky’s “Solaris” and Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Both…