By Diya Ahuja, 16 April, 2020
“It is a very seductive movie, visually; it looks like soft old bleached-out Polaroid, in the colors of fruit and candy and clean water and the most perfect reddest red everywhere”.
-Maria Bustillos
Her is a 2013, American Sci-fi romantic drama film written, directed and produced by Spike Jonze. It marks Jonze’s solo screenwriting debut. The film follows Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix), a man who develops a relationship with Samantha; an artificially intelligent virtual assistant personified through a female voice. This film also stars Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, Olivia Wilde, and Chris Pratt.
‘Her’ is set in the not-so-far-away future where technology rules over the man. This movie centers around Theo’s romantic interaction with the OS. It depicts the taking over of the technology over our lives in the name of communications and connections.
It is a tragic story that will make you cry. The relationship between Theo and Samantha seems entirely true and is no less than the practical relationships with other humans. The only difference is in the physicality.
This movie is a must-watch because the world might actually turn out to be the same as shown in this movie. It shows loneliness and a lack of human contact. Humans, relying on electronic and social media might seem a good concept but it can never dominate the experiences through genuine emotion.
The aesthetics and the colors used to set the whole mood for what the movie is about. Tints and shades of red with soft lighting adds up to the dreamy aura of the movie.
This movie gives you an idea of what loneliness, longing and disconnection might actually feel like. You definitely can’t miss out on 126 minutes of wonderful acting of Joaquin Phoenix in this amazingly executed story concept.
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. 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.
– Samantha (Her)
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