On the Silver Globe 4K 1988

The movie is a kind of utopian interpretation of the origin of life, in a distorted religious equivalent. Worth replacing the objects of worship, and we see the earthly world, in a kind of hyperbolized distorted form. “Everything here is just like on Earth - the same chaos, the same lies, the same hatred, and that's why we flew here, to get rid of the hatred!” - that's how Jerzy, one of the first astronauts to arrive on the silver planet, sees it.

It is no accident that the film is shot in blue-black, for it is the color of chaos. It is the color of Kronos (Saturn). His number 8 is the infinity of the universe. In alchemy it means absence of colors, dissolution, the first stage of the Great Experience, fermentation, something sinister, descent into hell. In Christians it means the underworld, death, sorrow, mourning, humiliation, spiritual darkness, despair, corruption, evil spells.

Tomasz, one of the crew members who is badly concussed, before his death gives an extensive philosophical speech that freedom is possible in a place not yet polluted by previous people. That is, freedom in the movie should be interpreted as freedom from ourselves. A kind of an attempt to escape from one's beginning/an attempt to make sense of one's beginning. However, the desire to give meaning to one's existence leads to the mythical, the transcendent. It is no coincidence that as the plot develops, the movie slips in the theory of a certain scientist named Rod that there are no sherns in reality, but only a projection of the human thirst for meaning that someone else has to give to people. “And a new god (Earthman Marek) will appear and free the humans from the cruel sherns who enslaved them!”.

Once on the silver planet, Man is alone with himself, in his emptiness, which is filled by a false religion (first resembling paganism and then Christianity). All the actions refer to religion, faith, idolatry. The movie is a kind of mock theism, at least in its existing variations. Here the importance of the human unit in the herd, the tribe, is erased. And despite the fact that this planet has everything like on Earth - grass, sea, fish, birds, man and community fill the entire space of the movie. There is no unity of man with nature, with himself. Here man is only a phantom pain. The pain of a nonexistent organ of the soul.

The statement “The actor is the victory of ugliness over the beauty of the universe”, which is heard in the film, I would safely replace it with another: “Man is the victory of the illusory, imaginary over the natural.