![]() Love is an integral part of our humanity, and it’s the hardest to describe. A large part of Samantha’s existence boils down to Descartes’ “I think, therefore I am.” But through the lens of a love story, those questions feel fresh. It’s a strong contrast to her boyfriend, who has become stuck in neutral since his breakup with Catherine.īig questions of “Who are we?”, “Why are we here?”, “Is there such thing as a soul?”, etc. “I have the ability to grow from my experiences,” she tells Theodore. She’s defined by her relationship to Theodore, and could arguably be described as a “Manic Pixie Dream Operating System” except half of the story is Samantha looking for her humanity. She also doesn’t have any friends or family. From the moment she comes into existence, she has no baggage or any reason to feel fear. What she doesn’t have provides her definition. Of course, Samantha is so much more than simply an absentee physical form. ![]() Is it really so strange that someone could develop an emotional relationship to a personality that’s devoid of a body? People in Internet comments section feel free to verbally attack total strangers. We carefully craft every sentence, and feel freer to speak our minds. We communicate, but don’t have conversations. Social networking has counter-intuitively created more distance between us. If a piece of technology could provide love without all the messiness of real people, would we take it? I think many people would. Like Samantha, we’re looking at a world we know (she can access and read any information in 2/100ths of a second) but through new eyes. The disinterested are bound to raise questions like “Why doesn’t the OS take over the world?” “When does SkyNet come in?” “Will Theodore cheat on Samantha with Windows 12?” The movie does raise legitimate questions like “Are other people falling in love with their OS’s,” and Jonze answers them in due time. It’s incredibly easy to poke fun at Her because the movie is so earnest and ambitious, and wearing your heart on your sleeve opens you up to getting punched in the arm. would change the world, he keeps his focus on the love between Theodore and Samantha. Rather than get bogged down in the intricacies of a how A.I. Like all great futuristic science fiction, Jonze grounds his story by carefully building on the present.Ĭreating this resemblance isn’t necessarily to critique society, but to explore the relationship of the individual to his or her personal technology. ![]() Technology serves a function, and we increasingly require it to provide the function of creating that illusion. That sounds like something I would say.” Chat bots aren’t new either (Jonze says the idea for the film came from interacting with one), and chatrooms provide the same illusion of intimacy. Greeting cards are nothing new, but it’s an odd form of intimacy when you stop to think about it. Jonze asks a lot of his audience when it comes to accepting his extraordinary premise, but then he reminds us that perhaps it’s not so outlandish.
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