On Wednesday I went to see "her" on the cinema. I was eager to see this movie because I really enjoyed another movie of the same filmaker, Spike Jonze, "Being John Malkovich", which I found so weardly funny and thus very unique. Then I expected a lot from this new movie, "Her", and I was not disappointed!
"Her" is a very touching, surprising yet believable love story about a man with his computer program ("Samantha"), played by the sensual voice of Scarlett Johanson.
As the "relationship" between Theodore Twombly and Samantha is growing, I found myself forgetting that "Samantha'(Scarlett Johanson) is not human, that she is an operating system. I really had to remind me that, but the acting is so good that it really makes you believe in this odd love story.
But for me the main subject of the movie was not love or even a debate about artificial intelligence. It was about loneliness and melancholy. About the kind of craziness that can appear after a hard breakup. In this movie the main character -played by Joaquin Phoenix- loses touch with reality and you can see that it is sorrow and loneliness that makes him first fall for this operating system.
In addition to this interesting psychologic issue, there's a bit of nice fantasy that reminded me of the crazy "Being John Malkovitch" movie... Spike Jonze shows us there is a thin line between human emotions and an operating system made to evolve, learning from experience and adapting to our needs and personnality, and puts the doubt in our mind about the real nature of "Samantha". How far can we control this intelligent and continuously growing system?
I strongly recommend you this movie, and I'm sure you'll enjoy it ;) !
P.S: I realize this is a bit off topic for african news, but I'm sure you'll forgive me ;)
"Her" is a very touching, surprising yet believable love story about a man with his computer program ("Samantha"), played by the sensual voice of Scarlett Johanson.
As the "relationship" between Theodore Twombly and Samantha is growing, I found myself forgetting that "Samantha'(Scarlett Johanson) is not human, that she is an operating system. I really had to remind me that, but the acting is so good that it really makes you believe in this odd love story.
But for me the main subject of the movie was not love or even a debate about artificial intelligence. It was about loneliness and melancholy. About the kind of craziness that can appear after a hard breakup. In this movie the main character -played by Joaquin Phoenix- loses touch with reality and you can see that it is sorrow and loneliness that makes him first fall for this operating system.
In addition to this interesting psychologic issue, there's a bit of nice fantasy that reminded me of the crazy "Being John Malkovitch" movie... Spike Jonze shows us there is a thin line between human emotions and an operating system made to evolve, learning from experience and adapting to our needs and personnality, and puts the doubt in our mind about the real nature of "Samantha". How far can we control this intelligent and continuously growing system?
I strongly recommend you this movie, and I'm sure you'll enjoy it ;) !
"Her" official Trailer
P.S: I realize this is a bit off topic for african news, but I'm sure you'll forgive me ;)
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