yea soviet era movies are fire.
Solaris was so good. Soviet sci-fi was really incredible.
Anyways, to add to your thoughts, I think it’s very hard to put any real artistic effort into things that require such huge budgets and collaboration among so many different people. Just compare Solaris the book with the Clooney movie.
Kim is wrong about this on art. Art for its own sake is important and is one of the reasons for the revolution, to free art from the constrains of capitalism and needing to make money.