sweet, smart, silly, serious film for our times!!

Rating: 10/10 (19 January 2015)

It is engagingly self-aware and excruciatingly self-conscious, wearing its hipness on its sleeve; it's ingenious and yet remarkably contrived. The film seems very new, but the sentimental ending is as old as the hills. There are some great moments. it is the best kind of science fiction, the kind that reflects the world we live in right now. Jonze isn't judging our addiction to phones and other technology, he's examining it, and in the examination he finds the ways these things make us better. In the end Her comes down strongly on the side of human contact, but it feels in some ways like the first salvo in post-human empathy. Or maybe it's the most human thing of all, understanding that true love is between minds and not bodies.