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I
don’t like to sit through movies. I used to. And I still can in a movie theater,
because bright lights and loud noises can pacify me, but this movie…
Woah.
I haven’t had such a strong reaction to a film since I saw The Proposition by John Hillcoat. And that strong reaction was more repulsion and fear then anything else.
At
the end of Her, I was sitting dead still and silent, tears streaming, chest
constricted, unable how to describe my feelings.
It
took me a couple of days to recover in order to write this post. I promise
there will not be any spoilers.
Blondie
and I went to the film fully prepared to cry. However, I was not expecting to
find the highest level of humanity I’ve ever seen in any romance film within,
of all things, a post-modern romance film about a man and his AI (artificial
intelligence) OS (operating system).
The
progression of their relationship, the twists and falls, it seems so natural
and so beautiful… yet volcanic… all at the same time.
We
must keep in mind that I have zero experience with committed relationships, but
I usually have a pretty good sense for feeling the truth in a story, and I
think that Her nailed it on the head.
Of
course, I cannot talk about the end of the film without spoilers, but I must
say that the entire film is absolutely marvelous and I do very much recommend
people see it.
The
cinematography itself is also wonderful, and I am obsessed with close up
reaction shots being someone obsessed with acting theory. There were a lot of those,
and they were all beautiful.
I
don’t know if I’ll ever be able to watch it again (at least, for a very long
time), but I will definitively state Her is
my all-time favorite film.
Watch
it. And feel free to comment if you have watched it. Or if you find the
AI-human dynamic fascinating.
I loved it too! I was deeply moved by the romance aspect of the movie and how the emotions played out in their relationship, as well as the deep look into the respective emotional difficulties of the two plain players. My main takeaway from this is on the technological end of the spectrum (and by a hair) because all of this complex, moving beauty passed between a man and an AI entity. The fact that this movie can bring tears to the eyes of its viewers despite our stereotypical aversion to humanoid technology is a positive and astounding sign in my eyes. I think it shows our ability to accept and believe in the transcendence of emotions between beings and recognize the non- human as individual persons, too.
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