a sad, and long-winded commentary on modern relationships

Rating: 6/10 (20 March 2014)

The movie was too long; an hour would have made the points I gleaned from it without the tedium. I think it was set in the not too distant future - next month? next year? The upset Theodore, emotionally upset by his pending divorce and by the letters he wrote for a living, lives in a virtual world - see the 3D personalized game he plays alone in his coldly furnished apartment way above the dehumanized city of LA. He falls for a personalized OS friend, whom he can control by switching off. However he cannot control the fact that she is talking to 1000s of others; this hurts his ego; he wants her to himself. I feel this movie shows us the future, which I think very bleak, of human relationships; basically one-way and 'virtual'. What we don't like - we can switch off... I was reminded horribly of 'grooming for sex' and the other bodiless relationships that are becoming increasingly common in our too-busy for real relationships society.