9/25/2023 0 Comments Her spike jonze broll![]() Though they’ve drawn many comparisons to each other, Her's Samantha and the (female) iPhone personal-assistant program Siri are quite different-but they do share common ancestors. Oh, this is a very cleverly written program, I thought in the end, but for those couple of minutes I got a very distinctive, tingly kind of buzz from the experience. And then after a couple of minutes you start to notice the cracks and the flaws. I got this sort of buzz thinking: This thing’s actually keeping up with me. I went to the website, and I IMed this address, and I was like, “Hi, how are you?” and I got responses like, “Great, how are you?” And you can talk to it and tease it-not a him or her, it’s just typing-and get a little banter going, getting mocked and so on. Though this seems to be the first operating system of its kind, few people in the film seem surprised by Theodore and Samantha’s relationship. The two eventually begin a relationship and engage in normal couple activities, like double dates (though they look nothing like the traditional dinner and a movie, but rather like three people and a talking iPhone at a picnic). Theodore Twombly (Phoenix), recently divorced and disillusioned, purchases an advanced operating system named Samantha (voiced by Johansson) to help organize his life and perform a number of tasks, like reading and sending email and proofreading the letters he writes at his job. Set in the near future, Her uses scenes like these to examine desire, artificial intelligence, and the possibility of a relationship between a human and a piece of technology. But this way, spared some visual awkwardness, the viewer can better imagine the act taking place: two beings falling in love, one a man and one a disembodied, highly intelligent operating system. This is an unusual move for a mainstream film, deliberately moving the sex scenes offscreen. Trying to make sense of it all.About midway through Spike Jonze’s new film Her, characters played by Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson engage in very passionate, vocal sex behind a completely blacked out screen. writing about, you know, the questions we were talking about in terms of the way we live with technology right now, but more so writing about trying to understand relationships and myself in relationships. I think I tried to write about what I was thinking about. On how his personal experiences with love influenced the film It's all these different things I'm thinking about, and a lot of them are contradictory. That makes me really happy to hear, you know, because to me it's everything. You know, like some people find it incredibly romantic, some people find it incredibly sad or melancholy, or some people find it creepy, some people find it hopeful. I think the other thing that's been really exciting about it is that as I've talked to people, the variety of reactions for what the movie's about is wide. On whether the film is meant to feel melancholy, or romantic, or. So I think, you know, where we're at right now has a particular set of challenges, but what I'm talking about has probably existed as long as we've existed. And that sort of tension has always been there. But also it's writing about something that I think has maybe always been here, which is our yearning to connect, our need for intimacy, and the things inside us that prevent us from connecting. touches on all of the themes that you're talking about in terms of the way we live in our modern life right now. ![]() I think there's not a simple answer to it, and the movie tries to - you know, the movie is my attempt at asking those questions. On what the film says about our relationship to technology
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