Solyaris is a 1972 Sci-Fi movie directed by Russian auteur Andrei Tarkovsky. Solyaris is an adaptation of the 1962 science fiction novel Solaris by the the Polish author Stanisław Lem that talks about the inadequacy of communication between the humans and the extraterrestrial world. The plot of the movie revolves around the Solaris mission under which scientists have established a base on a remote planet that seems to exhibit some mysterious phenomenon. The team of scientists are experiencing a tough time living in utter isolation and a troubled psychologist named Kris Kelvin is sent from earth to help them out. In Solyaris, we get to witness how Kris copes up with his inner traumas, augmented by a mysterious force, while still trying to help the scientists who are gradually entering a state of dementia. Having explored the world of cinema for over half a decade, I feel privileged to have watched Tarkovsky's Solyaris. Never before in my life had I ever experienced something so shattering and complete, something that left me humbled, mesmerized and perplexed as a movie viewer. Tarkovsky's Solyaris, which operates in the upper most echelons of cinema, deals with some of the most complex themes ever touched upon in the world of Cinema: be it artificial intelligence, psychology, extraterrestrial life, existentialism and empiricism. The ideas which have been propounded in Solyaris are developed further by Tarkovsky in Stalker (1979). The slow, complex narrative of Solyaris is in direct contrast to the the Sci-Fi movies of the west which rely heavily on their fast-paced narrative and use of special-effects. In my personal opinion, Tarkovsky's Solyaris and Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey together encompass the entire science fiction genre without leaving any avenue untrodden. Today, Solyaris is widely regarded as one of the finest achievements in moviemaking. M. Galina, in his 1997 article Identifying Fears, touted Solyaris as "one of the biggest events in the Soviet science fiction cinema" and as "one of the few works that does not seem anachronistic nowadays."