"Her" is just beautiful...

Rating: 9/10 (26 August 2015)

"Her" is possibly one of the most beautiful films I've ever seen. It is so cleverly written, wonderfully directed and contains such beautiful cinematography. This is one of those films you can't just walk away from - it leaves you thinking and over-analyzing every little aspect of it, and when you do, you get something more out of it.
"Her" is fundamentally about loneliness. It's a love story, but yet even the promotional posters for the film just feature a wistful Joaquin Phoneix as Theodore - a man in the grips of a painful divorce from a childhood love. He has his own issues with connecting with other people as well as his own emotions. After deciding to purchase a new artificially intelligent OS (operating system) who has named herself Samantha, Theodore falls in love.
It's just amazing how much contrast and irony are in this movie - you see Theodore happy and smiling, running through the streets of futuristic Los Angeles mad with love - yet he's all alone. We see him writing heartfelt letters, but not for himself, for other people who for some reason or other, can't write the letters themselves. We see a whole society where human interaction is bordering on the brinks of extinction - people are so isolated, yet there is that yearning to connect...
All in all, absolutely amazing. A must-see. Not just a love story, but a story about the human spirit..