Her – 9/10
As you
can tell, lately I've been cramming in a lot of movies with Cam since
it is almost time for awards so the good stuff is finally coming out
after a year of some of the most booty ass films. We decided to do
another one of our double features. Last night the first film we saw
was Her. This led to jokes between us about movies with vague titles
like Them, They Live, It, and The Thing. This movie was directed by
Spike Jonze which meant that at the very least it would be
interesting.
It
stars Theodore Twombly played by Joaquin Phoenix. He works at a place
that writes professionally made hand written letters for people.
Like, if you want to tell your kids, spouse, or friend how much you
love them this place will do it for you and Theodore is one of the
best at it. He is in the process of getting a divorce and refuses to
sign the papers. While going to sleep one night he decides to check
out some chat rooms. There is a small earpiece he wears to check
everything from email to talk to people and finds a woman to talk to
who goes from a 2 to 11 in terms of phone sex. I won't spoil what
happens but everyone in the theater was dying laughing!
One
day while just wandering around he sees a kiosk selling these things
called OS (Operating Systems). He gets one, heads home, and starts
setting it up. What the OS does is crazy. You answer about four
questions like how was your relationship with your mom and whether or
not you want a male or female voice. It downloads and it starts
talking to you. The program chooses the name Samantha voiced by
Scarlett Johansson which is an automatic win. She always sounds like
she just woke up after having the sex. At first Theodore thinks it is
weird talking to her but she quickly starts to help him by first
organizing his emails.
Theodore's
neighbors are a married couple Amy and Charles played by Amy Adams
and Matt Letscher. I swear when he came on the screen in his super
high waist pants I had to turn away from the screen to keep from
laughing anymore. Everyone wears weird clothes. This takes place in
the future Los Angeles but the year is never said. Amy is working on
a documentary and when she shows them the footage they just look
confused which totally deflates her. You can tell they have problems
but from what I gather about reality so does every married couple.
After
a blind date with a girl played by Olivia Wilde that goes very well
until the end where things get strange because she wants a
relationship and he just kinda wants to fuck someone to feel
something since he can't do anything with Samantha, he gets even more
down on himself. Thankfully she isn't in this long because her face creeps me out.
Theodore
and Samantha start to form a very strong relationship. The funny
thing is that at first I was like “How is he falling in love with a
voice?” But then I thought about the last few relationships I had
where it was pretty much texting and phone calls and realized I was a
hypocrite. Samantha spends her time learning new things and he takes
her on trips. They even go on a double date with his co-worker and
his girlfriend. At this point people are starting to really date
their OS's and it isn't looked down on.
Theodore
finally signs the divorce papers with his ex wife Catherine played by
Rooney Mara. She gets upset when he tells her about Samantha. As time
goes on Samantha sets up a surrogate woman to have sex with him. He
is really not into it but when the girl shows up (she doesn't talk
and just does what Samantha says) they start kissing but he freaks
out when Samantha says that she loves him and he cant say it to the
girl's face. The girl ends up crying because she was looking forward
to being apart of the love they share.
Their
story ends up being like far too many of my relationships have been
at certain points. “What's wrong?” “Nothing.” Yeah. I've been
on both ends of this. There's something wrong. His friend Amy and her
husband end up divorcing and Samantha starts to get distant and meet
other OS's making Theodore feel left out and jealous. The smarter
Samantha got the more I kept thinking in my head “The Singularity!”
If you have never heard of that or done any research on it, give it a
try. Your mind will be blown.
This
movie was as close to perfect as a film about relationships can be.
Even though he is dating a computer system the love and fights they
have mimic real ones in very real ways. There are scenes that made me
squirm since it was too close to things I have gone through. There
are scenes that will make you burst out laughing. Particularly this
character in a video game Theodore plays that consists of a
conversation filled with the little guy calling every girl “fatty”
and flipping the middle finger and calling Theodore a fucker and
pussy. If you get a chance to see this movie you so have to.
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