Tarkovsky recognizes these differences, saying that there is a contradiction
with Lem's initial idea, because he was interested in the problems of inner
life, spiritual problems, so to speak, and Lem was interested in the collision
between man and Cosmos. In an ontological sense of the word, in the sense of the
problem of knowing and the limits of this knowledge - it is about that. Lem even
said that mankind was in danger, that there was a crisis of knowledge when man
did not feels ... This crisis is growing, a snowball, takes the form of various
human tragedies, including scientists.
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.28949.37608