I will admit it, when my boyfriend told me about this movie when it first came out in the cinema, I wasn't very impressed. Maybe it was the way he described it, or just my cynical nature coming through, but whatever it was, it was with great reluctance that I accompanied him to see it. And I couldn't have been more wrong.
Everything about this movie is impressive. Without exaggeration, I would watch this film a hundred times over and still probably not find anything to hate about it.
Her is a film directed and written by Spike Jonze, about a man named Theodore in the final stages of his divorce with his childhood sweetheart. Lonely, he turns to a new operating system (the film is futuristic) called OS1 for companionship, and his relationship with new found "friend" Samantha (Scarlett Johansson) increases and develops. Without giving you any spoilers, this film depicts perfectly how introverts on the internet feel about the friends and slightly more than friends they make.
Although filmed in Shanghai, the film is set in Los Angeles. The shots of this film are incredible, pale pastels set against startling brightness ocasionally makes for the most aesthetically pleasing cinematic experience I have had to date.
This movie contrasts the relationships we go through in life. Friends, family, co-workers, childhood sweethearts - and the question we are forced to ask ourselves for the first time since the explosion of technology, can you really love somebody you have never met?
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