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Her (2013)

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Academy Award® winner for Best Screenplay Directed by Spike Jonze & starring Joaquin Phoenix comes an love story that explores evolving nature & risks of intimacy in modern world.

Directors: Spike Jonze

Starring: Joaquin Phoenix Amy Adams Rooney Mara

Genres: Drama Comedy

Subtitles: English [CC]

Audio languages: EnglishEnglish [Audio Description]

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Supporting actors: Olivia Wilde Scarlett Johansson

Producers: Megan Ellison Spike Jonze Vincent Landay

Studio: WILD SIDE VIDEO

Rating: R (Restricted)

Content advisory: Violencesexual contentdrug usefoul language

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Douglas Groothuis

Low cyber life

Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2020

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Any significant point made in this film about the interface between real humans and pseudo-human programs has been made elsewhere. The nonhuman can mask as the human and win over humans who have given up on real world human interaction. Got it.

But there is no need to crawl through the gutter to make the point. That is what this film does: crawl through the gutter of unlikable people and immoral actions. No character is admirable. I find nothing redemptive or particularly insightful here.

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Andrew Ellington

I can’t help falling in love with ‘Her’…

Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2014

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Some films just come around that explore facets of our being with such organic tenderness we can’t help but nestle into their storytelling arms and rest our heads on their delicately detailed shoulders and just fly away with them, to a part of our souls that sing so sweetly despite the lingering heartbreak we know we are bound to experience. Heartbreak laced with hope that the future, while seemingly bleak, is not as daunting as we imagine it to be.

‘Beginners’.
‘Once’.
‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’.
‘Lost in Translation’.

And now, we have ‘Her’. These are all films that, despite their quirky sides or their detailed (and effective) use of gimmicks all bare their hearts on their sleeves in a remarkable natural tone. There are no unnecessary dramatics, no processed manipulations. They all embrace the fluidity and organic nature of life itself to create real grounded stories about relationships that blossom and flourish and ultimately come to an end and yet they are never broken, shattered or dire. There is a beautiful message of hope, of life awakening even in the midst of despair because as human beings, we can move on, we can grow and we can survive.

‘Her’ tells the story of Theodore. Theodore is a lonely man. He is separated from his wife, who has filed for divorce, and spends his days writing letters for other people and then concludes his days at his apartment, alone. He’s haunted by a past that included a happy relationship filled with soulful interactions and a bond that felt spirited and upbeat, but something happened and it all ended and now Theodore finds it impossible to connect with anyone anymore. That is, until he meets Samantha. Samantha is an OS (Operating System) who adapts to the needs and desires of Theodore. It is immediately apparent that this isn’t a normal OS, but that Samantha is something special, at least for Theodore. She communicates with him, far beyond her normal duties, and becomes his friend. She understands him and draws him out and soon she begins to help him become the man he once was and had shelved for so long.

Samantha may not have a body, but she has a soul that runs deep.

There are so many things that impress me so much about ‘Her’ that it is almost hard to narrow them all down and put them into one review, but I must say that the single most impressive aspect of the film was the way that the relationship between Theodore and Samantha was handled, from the perspective of those outside of the relationship. This could have easily become one of those tense subjects that brought scorn or judgment from the supporting cast, but the way that Spike Jonze basically dismissed the strangeness of their relationship was remarkable. No one cared. Theodore’s friends never even batted a lash at it. Amy was wholly supportive, for she too was bonding with an OS. Paul, upon finding out that his friend’s girlfriend was an OS, doesn’t even question it. He just carries right on with his invitation to double date. The normalcy that was placed on the relationship helped ground the film, or at least ground the audience into the real dynamics of the film. This isn’t a film about a man’s relationship with an OS, this is a film about our human need to communicate, to bond.

I think that this aspect of the film makes the ex-wife, Catherine’s, reaction to Theodore’s relationship all the more haunting.

By using technology (and the advancement of such), Jonze created a world that speaks to us on so many levels. For me, ‘Her’ highlights that very innate desire to connect with someone, but ultimately the fear of actually doing just that. The fact is that sometimes it is hard to really connect with the people in front of us. Staring at someone, even someone we love, can make true communication difficult. We can feel their eyes, their judgment, their developing assumptions and yet when we take away the visual, some of the fear and anxiety strips away and we become a freer entity. ‘Her’ questions whether or not these devises we so often fall back on are a hindrance or a help, and in the process it explores themes like love, loss and hope.

‘Her’ depicts a depth of love that is not often found in films, but a love of real meaning and significance because Theodore and Samantha find a love that rests in the real person within and is not defined by a physical attraction.

But there is more to this story, as the final act will show.

Yes, Jonze’s masterful script (such a beautiful Oscar win) is so full bodied, for it builds up, tears down and then rebuilds (from a source that is born from the ashes) in a way that feels so real and relatable and construction. I love when a film can be constructive in ways that are completely unexpected.

Speaking of full bodied, these performances are just beautiful. All of the attention this year has been centered on Scarlett Johansson’s stunning voice work, a work that defied stereotypes by transcending the absence of body and giving us a very moving and intimate look at a woman discovering herself, day by day. While Johansson was tremendous, I feel that not enough attention has been given to Phoenix, who just continues to astound me. His performance here is marvelous. So intimate, so structured in this loose and organic way. He just folds into every scene with an air of abandon that I fell so deeply in love with. You can sense the guilt, fear and depression that haunt him when he is away from Samantha, and you can sense the freedom he feels when he is in her figurative arms.

This movie and all it represents is just beautiful.

For me, this is clearly one of the masterpieces of 2013. And A+ with honors. 2013 was, for me, a truly exceptional year that only grows and grows the more I think of it. There are few years in recent memory that delivered such a bounty of inspired, inspirational and breathtaking films. I can’t shake them…any of them. ‘Her’ is certainly one of the very best.

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Elvin OrtizTop Contributor: DC Comics

Unimaginative

Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2020

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One could imagine many things in a tale of a lonely man and an Artificial Intelligent female voice, but I didn’t see much happening in this futuristic claustrophobic world of Theodore Twombly. There are a couple of times where he has sex with the aid of the digital world, but that’s no different from the “phone sex” that was prevalent during the nineties. The greatest events that move the plot are when Samantha, the AI voice disappear on a couple of occasions making Twombly worry, showing the audience that he has become emotionally dependent on Samantha. After an hour I was losing hope to see something worth watching or knowing about this strange relationship, or something imaginative about this technology that I didn’t already know. However, I didn’t get anything but seeing and hearing Joaquin Phoenix’s sad face and voice and Scarlett Johansson’s therapeutic voice. It seemed an interesting topic to show on a film, but if there was any potential there, it just didn’t work for me. I had seen a similar theme in a film called Adaptation, also directed by this film’s director, Spike Jonze. This film simply didn’t have the same energy and interesting situations as the first one. Too flat to be enjoyed or understood.

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everyone comes to a movie for different reasons and a lot of times they try to keep the cerebral and introspective out of mainst

Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2016

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I see that this got very split reviews. It makes sense though, everyone comes to a movie for different reasons and a lot of times they try to keep the cerebral and introspective out of mainstream movies because while some people will really love it others won't be able to stand it.

I think the flow and ideas of the movie really established its science fiction creds, that is to say that science fiction proper is usually a deep set of philosophic questions about technology and what it might do to our future, how it may impact human behavior, how we measure up to our progress, etc.. The questions that really stood out to me in this 1) Just how much are we decaying in our ability to handle real human beings? That question to men and women alike 2) How would something that could read a book in a split second relate to us no matter how human its emotions were? 3) Why is it that we may be able to create something that can diagnose its own flaws and chase perfection at lightning speed (in the movie reach nirvana/paranirvana in about a month) while we're stuck with faulty hardware and software for our entire lives? 4) What is it about men and women that has us so often unable to reconcile differences in areas where those differences are often enough things that can't be helped? It was particularly funny, but telling, that the same patterns ended up playing themselves out with Samantha - our inconsistencies make the mess and we seem to carry them with us wherever we go. As beings we can't stand inconsistencies in others and yet we're constantly forced to reflect on how many inconsistencies we have in ourselves.

So I give Spike Jones props for making a great modern philosophic exploration of what's happening these days and how we're changing. As with a lot of these types of movies reality was truncated, ie. with the technology to create artificial intelligence would be just as easily the capacity to give that AI a proper physical form, just that in the movie the whole point was about maximizing the platform differences ie. bound (human) vs. unbound (AI), the consequences of those differences, etc..

I wouldn't expect everyone to like it but I got a lot out of it and yes - it was 2 hours well worth spending, no refund request.

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Someone

I want my money back please

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 8, 2020

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I bought this because I am very interested in AI and watch anything to do with AI. This was painful to watch. I gave up half way. The sexual scenes were totally unnecessary and unreal. I had to turn the volume down in case my neighbours could hear it. Boring all the way through. It was like it was written while doing the washing up and the laundry.
Samantha (The AI character) was intolerably false, in the sense that in reality that would not work or behave that way. This is purely made for modern women. The makers did not understand AI at all and just used a typical shallow feminine character with AI as a theme. The character had not purpose or balance either. For example why on earth does a program have a boyfriend? Why does who try to torture him emotionally? The whole point of creating AI is to remove the prehistoric shallow mentality of the women. It is like buying a realistic doll and program it to get pregnant, moody, have periods and cheat on you. Also Samantha was as lovable as a toilet brush. This film just emphasised the evil nature of women done something like that with this film.
Will not watch it again if I was maroons in space for the rest of my life.

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- The flow of interaction with AI system was very good, realistic, believable and seamless.
- The science was realistic, in proportion and not exaggerated.

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Budge

A thought provoking script for people who don't go out so much.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 31, 2019

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This was so brilliant an idea, i mean we all have relationships with inanimate objects. Haven't you ever found yourself talking to your car like it could understand or shouting "Why do you do this to me" at some faulty device. We're humanising things more and more as this computer age is stealing away our normal face to face socialising. Falling in love with your day planner is about possible given the right events, the right man and of course the right day planer.
That's where it doesn't quiet sit for me, its as if she's trying to hard that and then there's the length of the thing but it's still a great movie. Joaquin Phoenix emits just the right amount of calmness and the AI voice just the right amount of sexyness though as time goes on some of the things she comes out with is over the top. A thought provoking script but she just doesn't have the legs for two hours worth.

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Harry

Unbeleivable

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 28, 2019

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I cannot believe the other reviews are talking about the same film. It is certainly not a chic flic! It reminded me of a book "Portnoy's Complaint": the subject matter is the same. There were times when I laughed out loud at the way the OS talked to her owner: I would hope AI would have more self-respect. I cannot understand why anyone would put resources into this script, or how the AI voice actror said her lines without laughing. I kept waiting for a punchline, a twist, but no. 2 hours of my life gone. I warn all grown-ups against this film.

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Musical Anorak

An Unusual, But Very Profound & Enjoyable Film

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 7, 2016

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On paper, this film's storyline sounds dull, boring and a film I would normally avoid. I really did enjoy it, much to my surprise. The chemistry between Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson develops very naturally throughout the film into a very believable relationship; even though Johansson doesn't actually appear on screen. An unusual but very profound and enjoyable film.

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Creepy Pasta Kitty

Masterpiece.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 1, 2020

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...Not an exaggeration, the acting is perfect, the pacing is perfect, the characters are all well developed. It explores it's themes in depth and in an immensely interesting and enjoyable manner, I know art is subjective, but for me every aspect of this film is perfect, making this film a masterpiece.

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