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Solaris
By Steven Soderbergh from the novel by Stanislaw Lem - Film
Roles
- Snow - Young Adult (20-35), Adult (36-50), Male
About this piece
Snow's stream of consciousness monologue
Summary
Chris Kelvin (George Clooney), a psychiatrist who has just lost his wife, is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting an enigmatic ocean world, Solaris. He only finds two crew members, Snow (Jeremy Davies), a nervous and a bit psychotic scientist, and Gordon (Viola Davis). The other crew members have either disappeared or are dead. He soon learns that Solaris has been creating physical replications of people from the crew's memories. These people don't know that they are replicas or that they have been created by Solaris. In this scene Chris Kelvin adn Gordon have just discovered that Snow is actually the replica of himself. The real Snow has been killed by the replica. Snow gives an incoherent stream of consciousness monologue where he tries to explain what happened and why he killed the real Snow.
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