Solaris (2002)

George Clooney: Kelvin

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• Chris Kelvin : Earth. Even the word sounded strange to me now... unfamiliar. How long had I been gone? How long had I been back? Did it matter? I tried to find the rhythm of the world where I used to live. I followed the current. I was silent, attentive, I made a conscious effort to smile, nod, stand, and perform the millions of gestures that constitute life on earth. I studied these gestures until they became reflexes again. But I was haunted by the idea that I remembered her wrong, and somehow I was wrong about everything.

• Chris Kelvin : Can you tell me what's happening here?

  Snow : I could tell you what's happening, but I don't know if it would really tell you what's happening.

• Chris Kelvin : [quoting Dylan Thomas poem]  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.

• Chris Kelvin : What does Solaris want from us?

  Gibarian : Why do you think it has to want something? This is why you have to leave. If you keep thinking there's a solution, you'll die here.

  Chris Kelvin : I can't leave her. I'll figure it out.

  Gibarian : Do you understand what I'm trying to tell you? There are no answers, only choices.

• Chris Kelvin : Why did you kill yourself?

  Gibarian : It seemed like a good idea at the time, now I think I made a mistake.

• [last lines] 

  Chris Kelvin : Am I alive, or dead?

  Rheya Kelvin : We don't have to think like that any more. We're together now. Everything we've done is forgiven. Everything.

• [Speaking for the first time] 

  Rheya Kelvin : Don't blow it.

  Chris Kelvin : [laughs]  You start.

  Rheya Kelvin : I did.

  Chris Kelvin : Really? All right, I'm going to resist the impulse to ask you about the doorknob.

  Rheya Kelvin : Do you always resist your impulses?

  Chris Kelvin : Not always.

  Rheya Kelvin : Try poetry.

  Chris Kelvin : And death shall have no dominion...

  Rheya Kelvin : Mm, Thomas. It's not a very happy poem, though.

  Chris Kelvin : Well, you didn't seem very happy when I saw you on the train.

  Rheya Kelvin : [laughs]  I wasn't.

  Chris Kelvin : And tonight?

  Rheya Kelvin : It's early.

• Rheya Kelvin : Were you alone?

  Chris Kelvin : Yes.

  Rheya Kelvin : Was that difficult?

  Chris Kelvin : It was easier than being with someone else.

• Rheya Kelvin : I can't remember how I got here. Did I come here with you?

  Chris Kelvin : I don't know how you got here.

  Rheya Kelvin : What do you mean?

  Chris Kelvin : I woke up and you were here.

• Gibarian : You think you're dreaming me.

  Chris Kelvin : You're not Gibarian.

  Gibarian : No? Who am I then?

  Chris Kelvin : A puppet.

  Gibarian : And you're not? Or maybe you're my puppet. But like all puppets you think you're actually human. It's the puppets dream, being human.

• Snow : How much sleep ya need, Kelvin?

  Chris Kelvin : How much sleep?

  Snow : Yeah. Um, how long ya think you can go without sleep?

  Chris Kelvin : Depends.

  Snow : Well, when you do go to sleep... I find I sleep much better with the door locked.

• Chris Kelvin : I don't believe that we are predetermined to relive our past.

• Rheya Kelvin : I never thought you wanted one.

  Chris Kelvin : Sure, like I'd never want some life around this house!

• Chris Kelvin : Where have you been?

  Rheya Kelvin : Away from those fucking people.

  Chris Kelvin : They're my friends.

  Rheya Kelvin : Yeah.

• Chris Kelvin : What about your visitor, the one you're so ready to destroy without hesitation? Who is it? What is it? Does it feel? Can it touch? Does it speak?

  Gordon : We are in a situation that is beyond morality.

• Chris Kelvin : Is that what everybody wants?

• Rheya Kelvin : So, apart from the poem that you quoted to me the night we met...

  Chris Kelvin : The night that you were hitting on me? That night?

  Rheya Kelvin : I, eh, don't think so. What's your favorite poem?

  Chris Kelvin : My favorite Dylan Thomas poem? Well, there's the, eh, there's the, the one he's most famous for. Which starts, eh, "There was a young man from Nantucket - "

• Rheya Kelvin : You found me.

  Chris Kelvin : I came back for you. I came back that day. I'm sorry

• Chris Kelvin : Why haven't you come home? What happened here? What did you find?

  Gordon : Who are you representing, exactly?

  Chris Kelvin : I represent the last effort to recover this mission before they abandon this ship and everyone on board.

  Gordon : Until it starts happening to you, there's really no point in discussing it.

• Chris Kelvin : How about you? How are you doing?

  Gordon : Depression along with bouts of hypomania and primary insomnia, suggestions of agoraphobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, shock, fatigue, denial.

  Chris Kelvin : None of which is unusual given the circumstances.

  Gordon : I know.

• Rheya Kelvin : When I was little, I had this imaginary friend called Mika Shelly. Okay? Who used to live under the wallpaper in the corner of the room. And I used to go and visit her. We had a very intense relationship.

  Chris Kelvin : You're with the right guy.

• Rheya Kelvin : I won't make it without you.

  Chris Kelvin : Then you won't make it.

• Chris Kelvin : You came before.

• Chris Kelvin : [sounding lonely]  Mrs Harris I'm calling you to remind you that if you want to book an appointment just call.

• Chris Kelvin : All of which is understandable under the circumstances

• Chris Kelvin : [reflexively gets Rheya some pills]