Plays on the comic book styled media hype of "sentient" robots.

Rating: 4/10 (25 July 2018)

"Her" is largely a film that builds on older films that contain the somewhat patronising subtext: "This is where technology will bring us in our brave new future." The film is fairly interesting, yet it appears to legitimise people's obsession with technology by romanticising it. In the case, this romanticisation is quite literal due to the fact that the main character develops what deceptively passes as a "relationship" with an AI. There really is little to say about this film, except it serves as a depressing reminder that people would prefer talking to a piece of software rather than other human beings. However, I'm sure that the more pretentious and irrationally romantic among us would probably herald the film as a touching and poignant polyromantic story that is the future of "THE WORLD OF TOMORROW!"