"Her" - Love Lost and Found

Rating: 8/10 (18 April 2015)

Spike Jonze​ has truly, and not just according to the popular notion, delivered something that is nothing short of his masterpiece in this science fiction-romance-drama.
The film revolves around Theodore ( Joaquin Phoenix ), a loner- divorced man in his thirties with a writing job, who develops a relationship with his female-personified operating system, Samantha ( Scarlett Johansson ) and together they explore their friendship, intimacy and eventually a consciousness of life, in general. The hyper-philosophy seems more relevant in visuals than in writing; (thus, undoubtedly - "a picture could say a thousand words.") "Her" resembles faintly a science-fiction fantasy, "Vanilla Sky", in its plot line, however, with much deeper conclusions and of course, one might find themselves choking at certain junctures down the film.
The film's unfurling resembles a book where Jonze is surprisingly quite just and accurate in depicting poignance along with the allusive framing by Hoyte van Hoytema's cinematography ( Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Interstellar Movie ), that it actually engaging to know more scene-after-scene. Arcade Fire is symmetrical in its techno-acoustic music compositions, that garnish the narrative aptly.
The film would be more suitable for people who are into honest, sincere romance/dramas and might just be too odd and rather stupid for the ones who prefer other genres (including - science fiction).
Rating - 8/10