Her Movie Review

Rating: 7/10 (3 October 2016)

The movie Her, directed by Spike Jonze, is a screenplay in which the main character, Theodore, falls in love with his operating system (OS) Samantha. This conceivable situation seems as if it could eventually happen in the future when our technology becomes so advanced that humans can interact and hold realistic conversations with their processors. Although this seems very bizarre, humans have been known to fall in love with other unusual objects and obsessions. I think this situation would be more possible for a human to fall in love an OS over other things because an OS is something that can interact back with you. The movie Her displayed this love relationship in an ideal way and uses many different techniques of doing it. The theme of the story seemed to be, it doesn't matter what it is that brings you love as long as it makes you happy. This message was displayed all throughout the movie when people would judge Theodore for dating his OS system and how it didn't faze him because he was so in love with her. The scenery throughout the movie also gave the story a visual aid that helped to display the theme. The contrast in colors from reds to whites to blacks really set a good mood for the feelings that were being felt by Theodore and Samantha during certain scenes in the story. Samantha brings up the questions will OS's be able to hold such sophisticated conversations with humans and such deep feelings to where humans will fall in love with these OS's?