Love Transcends All Else

Rating: 10/10 (23 September 2014)

A few nights ago as I checked out from my daily work routine, I decided to look through RedBox for a film to watch. I chose the film Her, after a minute or so of sifting through the selection of movies, as it had been something that I had wanted to watch for some time now. When I arrived home, I turned the film on and watched. In short, Her is a very touching, emotional, and surprisingly realistic film. It has left me feeling deeply moved and has showed me that love exists in many different forms.
Theodore Twombly's struggle with heartbreak and loneliness is an issue that I strongly identify with. To be alone and not have someone to share your love with is devastating and isolating and it destroys the sense of purpose. Samantha, the operating system who comes into Theodore's life, is a very real and human character despite a lack of physical being. She possesses human knowledge and emotions and the love that she shares with Theodore changes their lives. They share what is perhaps the most moving and loving connection that I have yet seen on film.
The journey of Samantha and Theodore is greatly symbolic, from my perspective, of my own journey that I share with my lover. Theodore is lonely and withdrawn until Samantha comes into his life, as I was until my girlfriend came into mine. They soon become friends, as did we. They become very close and eventually find love in each other and become inseparable, as did her and I. Theodore learns through Samantha that there is a limit for despair and self-loathing, but there is no limit for love, a lesson that I too have learned from my lover.
I identify with the story of this film more than any other. Theodore's journey strongly parallels that of my own. The love that he finds in Samantha is the love that my own lover has given to me. The film's ultimate lesson is one that should be common knowledge; that love transcends all else.