Quirky, beautiful and strange

Rating: 8/10 (4 October 2016)

Her has many things going for it. Its atmosphere and setting are amazingly conceived as a near future full of technology, not too different from our own present. Its cinematography is absolutely amazing. Sometimes I would be lost in shots that were there to give me a feeling only without any dialogue. The way it was shot was so it had very few actors. There were many extras but only sometimes did we really see them. This focus on Phoenix's character helps build his world as a self absorbed loner very well. The plot can drag at a few times near the end of the first act but otherwise it is a well paced movie. The view of how an artificial intelligence would act in a world like this is very realistic. The overall goal of this movie is to be a slice of future realism, and Spike Jonze did a great job of doing just that.