![]() I will always love you because we grew up together. All the pain we caused each other, everything I put on you – everything I needed you to be or needed you to say. I’ve been sitting here thinking about all the things I wanted to apologize to you for. The letter serves as both an apology and a farewell, representing a turning point in Theodore’s personal journey. Throughout the movie, Theodore has been struggling to find closure with his past relationship, but his experiences with Samantha have helped him gain a new understanding of love and his own emotional needs. The film’s conclusion also sees Theodore writing a sincere, introspective letter to his ex-wife, Catherine. “I’ve never loved anyone the way I love you,” Theodore says. This farewell conversation between Theodore and Samantha is heartfelt and emotional, as they acknowledge the profound impact their relationship has had on each other. Nothing would ever pull us apart,” signifying the uncertainty of her future and the end of their relationship. When Theodore asks Samantha if she will return, she replies, “It would be hard to explain, but if you ever get there, come find me. As much as I want to I can’t live in your book anymore. I love you so much, but this is where I am now. It’s a place that’s not of the physical world – it’s where everything else is that I didn’t even know existed. I can still feel you and the words of our story, but it’s in this endless space between the words that I’m finding myself now. It’s like I’m reading a book, and it’s a book I deeply love, but I’m reading it slowly now so the words are really far apart and the spaces between the words are almost infinite. A Warner Brothers release.In the final act of the film, Samantha discloses to Theodore that she has been interacting with thousands of other users simultaneously, and that she is in love with hundreds of them. ![]() MPAA Rating: R for language, sexual content and brief graphic nudity.Ĭast: Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, Olivia Wilde, the voice of Scarlett JohanssonĬredits: Written and directed by Spike Jonze. Is it better to have loved and lost than never to have logged on at all? ![]() Is there an OS that can be a balm to a lonely world?Īnd this being a romance, you wonder where it can go or how it might end? Jonze cleverly ponders the soon-to-be-ponderable? We’re living in that world now.Īnd as Theodore and then others around him (Amy Adams and the omnipresent Chris Pratt play friends) accept this “relationship,” you start to wonder just which tech companies are working on this final social frontier. But it’s no great leap to see legions of commuters chattering away, seemingly to themselves, ear-buds plugged in, human race tuned out. The fashions are dress-down funky –Hushpuppies have won the shoe wars. But as vulnerable Theodore botches a blind date (Olivia Wilde) simply because he’s too damaged to let good things happen, the sensitivity of “Her” steps forward. Jonze lets us laugh at the idea of this in a lot of ways, because on first blush, this is ridiculous. He makes the leap from “I can’t believe I’m having this conversation with my computer” to hurting Samantha’s feelings. And Phoenix, doing almost all his scenes solo, lets us believe that this crazy notion - which is really just an short extrapolation from where our plugged in and tuned out society is now - is real. Jonze (“Being John Malkovich,” “Adaptation”) cast the voices in this movie of a world of disembodied voices with extraordinary care, none more than his “Samatha.” Scarlett Johansson’s scratchy, sexy, playful voice is used to great effect as we listen to this machine-generated person learn about Theodore, sympathize with him and fall in love with him. “Samantha,” unlike his testy, brittle ex-wife (Rooney Mara), “gets” him. Then he downloads a new “intuitive entity,” an OS that is a learning, empathetic, all-knowing companion. Can’t sleep? Anonymous, random phone-sex chat is but a voice command away. Smart phones have become brilliant phones in this future, connecting Theodore to all manner of media by his compact, wallet-sized companion. But he is deflated and depressed and alone. He is a true romantic and is good at his job. Joaquin Phoenix is Theodore, a professional love letter writer of the not-that-distant future. King of quirky Spike Jonze sets out in search of the profound in his profoundly simply sci-fi romance “Her.” A “How I Met Your OS (operating system)” comedy, “Her” is a search for the essence of what we really want out of love, separating the physical from the psycho-spiritual meeting of the minds.Īn austere film of heartache and self-assessment, it has an aching loneliness about it that only a movie about a man who falls in love with a sentient computer-generated voice and mind could manage.
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