5 Surprisingly Realistic Depictions Of Aliens In Movies

5. The Ocean - Solaris

The Ocean, as it appears in Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 film, is the name given to the sole inhabitant of the mysterious planet Solaris.

A giant mass of plasma covering an entire world, The Ocean is not so much an entity as it is an ecosystem. Whether it also possesses a consciousness, though, no one can tell.

When all attempts to communicate with it fail, a group of scientists aboard a space station orbiting the planet decide to bombard it with radiation beams in order to elicit a response.

And a response they get. Not only does The Ocean stealthily hijack their subconscious, it also uses the memories buried there to materialize their worst regret and greatest shame which, in the case of protagonist Kris Kelvin, take the form of his late wife, Hari, whom he had once driven to kill herself.