This is spring break week at the university , and since we went to Hawaii in January, it is movie time for us! I dragged the professor away from a marathon of ‘Breaking Bad’ and we deiced to see ‘Her.’ I can remember when science fiction films were hard to imagine, but not this one.
‘Her’ is set in the future of Los Angeles, maybe 50 years. Everyone is walking around with buds in their ears talking to a virtual friend. The protagonist is Theodore ( Joaquin Phoenix, who was quite outstanding). The stage was set in the opening scenes when we find out that his job is writing beautifulhandwrittenletters.com! In this time and place, ‘people’ hire others to write letters to their loved ones that are rendered by computers in old-school cursive penmanship!
Theodore is lonely and sad at the break-up of his marriage and decides to start a relationship with an OS1, operation system, and meets Samantha (Scarlett Johansson) through his first artificial smart phone. She is bright, and a quick study to fit his needs. Their contact is of purely cerebral interaction in contrast to bodily contact, even during their times of physical intimacy.
The theme of the film was relationships, intimacy, and communications three important aspects of life. ‘Her’ is thought provoking as we decide along with Theodore our thoughts concerning the importance these play in our lives and relationships.
Is this the future?
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Interesting. I see it’s available via our cable company. We should watch it.
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Love the new logo! Aren’t those movie channels amazing? We have a bunch !
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Thank you! I’ve been using this logo on my photo website for quite sometime and wondered why I hadn’t used it as my gravatar/logo. I love movie channels! For all those movies I never was able to see in the theater. 🙂
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We’ve been meaning to watch this one. Looks good; thanks for the review.
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Let me know what you think. . . . .
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I think I’m going to need to try again with this film. I stopped watching it even though I thought Joachim was fab….
So will try again!
Thanks for the prompt…
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Interesting, I’ve never heard of this..
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I really can see this can be the future. You know Siri on iPhone or Google phone can answer your questions, refer you by your name and take order to few simple things on the phone for you. I can imagine people have close relationship with a machine if the machine can interact with you intelligently. I would not mind at all 😉 By that time, how do we tell the two apart…
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eeek… I read and view lots of ideas – this one is far out
Blessing.
~ Eric
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Well, I hope you are right, but I see people on cell phones pretty much all the time. They are even walking off the sidewalk and into holes. I hope people will have more personal interaction, Eric.
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I’ve seen similar people… maybe this movie isn’t so far out
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Fascinating film. It poses so many questions.
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Very thought provoking. . . . . .
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