I feel like I can be anything with you...

Rating: 9/10 (30 January 2014)

Theodore is in the final stages of his divorce. When he's not working as a letter writer, his time is spent playing video games and occasionally hanging out with friends.
He purchases the new OS1, which is advertised as the world's first artificially intelligent operating system.
He finds himself drawn in with Samantha, the voice behind his OS, and they grow closer and find themselves in love.
Theodore finds himself dealing with feelings of both great joy and doubt.
Samantha has powerful intelligence that she uses to help Theodore in ways others hadn't, but how does she help him deal with his inner conflict of being in love with a computer......
What Jonze has done here has channelled A Brave New World, and focused on the inevitable, what happens when we would rather have contact with Computers and AI, rather than spending time with the real world.
Look around you, people with earphones listening to Music on their MP3 players, or buried in their Smartphone or Tablet, was this happening ten years ago?
Well obviously not because of the advancement in tech, but imagine how severe it will be ten years from now, and if you saw this in the cinema, I guarantee you saw someone check their phone.
And this is why the film works so well, its inevitable. Phoenix is wonderful as usual, and has really come into his own after that stupid experiment he did with Affleck. Every performance since has been amazing, and I hope he continues his run.
Even though the film is set in the future, the film has a seventies feel to it, from the design right down to the fashion.
Its strangely one of the most romantically sad and at the same time heart warming films I've seen in a long time, the narrative teaches the central character to live, and love again.
Maybe it will inspire people to switch their phones off and just look around, and experience the real world.
A wonderful movie.