Had I seen Her four years ago, I would've been completely emotionally devastated

Rating: 10/10 (28 September 2015)

There's a certain line you need to cross, concept you need to buy for it to be effective and I think some people won't be able to. I could, far too easily. I've been bored and lonely before and spent time on ICQ or AIM, talking to people I've never met and never would. They were just as real as Samantha was. I understand Theodore's profound, aching loneliness, even as he has some friends, a loneliness that just wants to be loved, that doesn't understand why he isn't loved, right now, right here.
I "got" this entire movie. I was invested almost immediately. At one point, I had tears on my face, tears at the bone-in sadness the characters were experience. Later, I had tears of joy, joy that's found in such simple acts as a trip to the beach.
If the idea of someone falling in love with their operating system, or an AI or Siri is too much for you, I get that. It is certainly a sci-fi concept. But it's one that it used to very, incredibly effectively, tell a story about loneliness, despair, companionship, love and loss.
Her is a movie I was looking forward to seeing. Her is a movie I walked away from loving. Her has me choking up again just thinking about it. Her makes me want to hold my wife and never let go.