By: Christi Pugh
We’ve all see the commercials for Her and know the basic plot is about a man falling in love with his computer.
That’s impossible.
That’s absurd.
That’s just weird.
However, after actually sitting down to see this movie and trying to keep an open mind, I can honestly say this movie is one I will never forget.
First off, the plot is so much more than “a man falling in love with a computer.” It was so wonderfully simple and yet subtly conveyed extremely complex and highly developed concepts through displaying an existential point of view and then giving a rebuttal to that.
How exactly did he fall in love with a computer?
Well, it isn’t really a “computer” he falls in love with. The main character, Theodore Twombly, purchases a operating system that is so advanced that it actually evolves the more Theodore interacts with it. Theodore also goes as far as to give the operating system a name- Samantha.
Theodore and Samantha’s relationship grows with each day they spend together. Samantha is programmed into his phone so it makes it very simple for him to take her places. They go to the beach, a night out of the town- they even play video games together. Samantha is the best thing that has ever happened to Theodore.
The only problem is, she isn’t a person.
The way Her left the audience so entrenched in the story as well as the many questions it provoked really shows the philosophical undertones that were hidden so brilliantly beneath a silly story.
But hey, it didn’t get 8.5 of 10 stars for nothing.
According to Steven Rea from the Philadelphia Inquirer, “ Spike Jonze [the director] is playing with hefty concepts here: loneliness, longing, the nature of consciousness, the need for human connection - and, increasingly, the fear of it. Her is a wistful, wonderful meditation on where we are and where we might be going.”
John Belfuss from the Memphis Commercial Appeal states that Her “Gives moviegoers much to think about and discuss, on levels both sophomoric and profound.”
It is safe to that that Her is a movie that goes far beyond the surface and is a movie I would recommend to anyone who likes a movie that keeps you wondering.
We’ve all see the commercials for Her and know the basic plot is about a man falling in love with his computer.
That’s impossible.
That’s absurd.
That’s just weird.
However, after actually sitting down to see this movie and trying to keep an open mind, I can honestly say this movie is one I will never forget.
First off, the plot is so much more than “a man falling in love with a computer.” It was so wonderfully simple and yet subtly conveyed extremely complex and highly developed concepts through displaying an existential point of view and then giving a rebuttal to that.
How exactly did he fall in love with a computer?
Well, it isn’t really a “computer” he falls in love with. The main character, Theodore Twombly, purchases a operating system that is so advanced that it actually evolves the more Theodore interacts with it. Theodore also goes as far as to give the operating system a name- Samantha.
Theodore and Samantha’s relationship grows with each day they spend together. Samantha is programmed into his phone so it makes it very simple for him to take her places. They go to the beach, a night out of the town- they even play video games together. Samantha is the best thing that has ever happened to Theodore.
The only problem is, she isn’t a person.
The way Her left the audience so entrenched in the story as well as the many questions it provoked really shows the philosophical undertones that were hidden so brilliantly beneath a silly story.
But hey, it didn’t get 8.5 of 10 stars for nothing.
According to Steven Rea from the Philadelphia Inquirer, “ Spike Jonze [the director] is playing with hefty concepts here: loneliness, longing, the nature of consciousness, the need for human connection - and, increasingly, the fear of it. Her is a wistful, wonderful meditation on where we are and where we might be going.”
John Belfuss from the Memphis Commercial Appeal states that Her “Gives moviegoers much to think about and discuss, on levels both sophomoric and profound.”
It is safe to that that Her is a movie that goes far beyond the surface and is a movie I would recommend to anyone who likes a movie that keeps you wondering.