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Andrei Tarkovsky's _Solaris_ has the measured pace typical of slow-cinema films. Thai slow-cinema director Apichatpong Weerasethakul (_Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives_) even states that his own work induces sleep in audiences. This might suggest his films are boring, but boredom does not always cause sleep: boredom creates an anxious tension in the absence of a place to fix attention, and thus induces not somnolence but ______.