I Am Love and Solaris

I Am Love:

It was obvious to me that Emma, like we've been seeing throughout the course of the semester, is dissatisfied with her life and is no longer in love with her husband. I feel that this is partly related to the fact that he had since left to take over a business. Yet, at the same time, I think it could also be her looking for something new. Her husband seems cerebral and somehow cold. Antonio responds to her and his interests lay in things that give off a nurturing vibe, like cooking.

Emma in and of herself is a complicated person. She's a woman who feels as though she deserves to be happy, to love who she wants. It's unfortunate that that person is not her husband, but she's trying to find what's best for her. At the very same time, this is parallel to her daughter who has recently come out and is trying to find her own happiness in a world that still isn't necessarily woman-friendly.

Solaris:

This film really speaks to desire and the loss of love in a different way, with an unearthly (ha, ha) chance at another go.

Chris wants what he can't have. Literally. His wife isn't human, and basically tells him that she feels fake. She feels like her memories aren't really real, and that she doesn't have any emotional attachment to him. Yet, after all that, Chris is just determined to keep what they have continuing, not wanting to lose her again. It could never happen, and she had more or less said that she's not even capable of being in love with him, but that thought just drives him further. He loses sleep over her, trying to help and thinking he could make it right. All the while, nearly everyone is telling him it's a lost cause, not even realizing that that was doing nothing but fueling his fire.

Eventually, he gives up literally everything to be with her, because he just can't imagine the possibility of not having her anymore.