My Top Ten Insights from "Her":

Rating: 4/10 (12 January 2014)

My Top Ten Insights from Her —the "ultimate relationship film":
One could argue about what the sad-sack protagonist of Her learned, if anything, or what insights a film viewer might have gained, if any, about relationships from this film. But my top Her insights (for guys) were: 1) A romantic relationship with a woman who has no body is ultimately going to be unsatisfying. Insight 2) A romantic relationship with a super-being will not end well. (Insight 1 was not news. Insight 2 I knew from god-human hookups in high-school Greek mythology). Insight 3) If you're not in a human relationship at the moment, and if you meet a gorgeous, funny, emotionally generous young woman in a bar on a blind date, don't reject her simply because she'd like to see you again. Insight 4) If you're in a relationship with a disembodied essence, and if a beautiful woman comes to your door and offers to let you use her body for purely altruistic reasons, you're likely in a film that offers few insights about reality. Insight 5) Amy Adams is probably worth the effort. (Does she have Bob Hope's nose?) Insight 6) Writing corny relation letters for people in relationships who can't be bothered to write will pay very well in the future. (Did you see that guy's apartment?) Insight 6.1) Letter-writing services are not likely to be off-shored to English literature majors in India or Hong Kong in the future. Insight 6.2) Letter-writing professions will need to commute to the office in the future inasmuch as letter writing isn't something that can be done from the home. Insight 6.3) A futurist supercomputer Operating System with feminine sensibilities that is capable of human emotion, insight, and art — who can write a symphony or a novel in a few hours while carrying on eight-hundred emotion-loaded conversations, sixty of which are love affairs, even as she considered physics problems, medicine, and chats meaningfully other super-intellects — such a resource will not be used by the letter-writing industry in the future to write heart-felt profitable letters and thereby put slow-thinking human letter-writing professions out of a job forever in two micro-seconds. Insight 7) If you're into short-term fanciful relationships, Ted (the teddy bear) might be more fun. Insight 8) A book collection of relationship letters is likely to be tedious. Wait for the film. 9) If you're in a relationship now with a real woman, and the two of you go to see Her together, she may realize that she could do worse. Insight 10) Amy Adams is in America Hustle too, and Jennifer Lawrence. Rooney Mara—always solid work. What great performance from these ladies again this year.