A love story for the 21st century

Rating: 7/10 (22 July 2014)

Writer/Director Spike Jonze's 'Her' is a sharply written and insightful look at love, relationships, technology and the human condition in the 21st century. It's also--in the grand Generation X tradition--a very self obsessed story about the first world problems of upper middle class white people. The latter may blunt its importance, but it doesn't make the themes explored any less true.
As mentioned, the script is very sharp, but it would've been for naught without the right actor to pull it off, and thankfully 'Her' has Joaquin Phoenix, who reminds us that he really is one of his generation's best actors.
'Her' may not be as profound as it thinks it is, but it does deeply explore the more shallow aspects of the human experience.