solaris
solaris is one of the most spectacular movies i've seen in recent times, frame after luscious frame of breathtaking visuals, sustained suspense and a paper thin yet engaging story line. the treatment of death and after life, our visual and mental perceptions and the degree of credibility that we assign our faculties has been masterfully translated to the big screen by soderbergh from stainslaw's book of the same name. the movie also has a wonderful poem on death by welsh poet, dylan thomas, and death shall have no dominion, which goes like this,

And death shall have no dominion.
Dead men naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.

And death shall have no dominion.
Under the windings of the sea
They lying long shall not die windily;
Twisting on racks when sinews give way,
Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;
Faith in their hands shall snap in two,
And the unicorn evils run them through;
Split all ends up they shan't crack;
And death shall have no dominion.

And death shall have no dominion.
No more may gulls cry at their ears
Or waves break loud on the seashores;
Where blew a flower may a flower no more
Lift its head to the blows of the rain;
Through they be mad and dead as nails,
Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
And death shall have no dominion.

posted by ubaid - Sunday, September 07, 2003 at 10:54 PM - 0 comments - post anonymously