Divinty of human feel mixed with technology brilliance

Rating: 8/10 (4 May 2014)

I am a little late in watching this movie but I compensated that by watching it back to back twice. I must say that there is no doubt about the fact that the movie has been fantastically driven by Spike Jonze, the writer and director of the movie. The atmosphere and the world, it would take you into, is just unbelievable and you would actually realize that the idea in the movie is amazingly attractive and compels you to plunge into it. The story is about a guy, Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix ) who is going through a dull and painful phase. His marriage is about to fall apart. Though he is very grieved by that, he is unable to save it. The honesty, Joaquin Phoenix gives to his character, is accountable for all applauds. The sincerity, calmness and the stability needed for the character was exceptionally injected. Theodore is a letter writer who writes letter for others. In his free time he plays video games, goes out to be occupied with something or the other. One day he comes across an ad which is about an OS launch named OS1. The ad says "It is the first artificially intelligent OS. It's not just an operating system, it's a consciousness." Theodore purchases the OS. The OS turns out to be a perfect companion for Theodore. It has been so brilliantly designed that he feels as if he is talking to a person. The OS evolves and finds that it has started to feel. It captures Theodore completely and he falls for it. The interesting fact is that OS also falls for Theodore. The OS decides a name "Samantha" that it wants to be called by Theodore. This OS is a female voice which is performed by Scarlett Johansson. The voice is simply perfect to bring out the feel that what we are hearing is not normal human and yet so much of it. It gives the feel of both the human and the device. And that is actually the beauty of the whole movie. It has managed to move through the pathway that goes just between the brilliance of a machine and the divinity of a human feel. This makes the OS a perfect companion to be with. Theodore felt that Samantha is the one whom he loves, who is just perfect for him and best part is that you would feel the same for the OS. It, somehow, is just perfect for all of us. The music by Arcade Fire is soulful. It would find a way to creep into your mind. Many moments are amazingly pure and the music given to them is no lesser in purity. It is going to drag you into the very world where the director has taken the movie to. The other factor that matters a lot to me is the pace of the movie. The pace with which this movie goes is anodyne. There is no respite for you here too. You have to live the moments and actually feel the love, agony and helplessness. The Love that is shown is just the purest of the forms and it actually takes us to the fact that bodily existence is not what Love asks for. It is only ' the feel of it' that matters. The OS fills this part as perfectly as it can be. In the conclusion, I would like to say that there is a brilliant concept with so much reality to it and exposing the generation's flaws for Love and Relationship. Needless to say, it is one of the Movies-we-must-see- before-dying type