The advancement of science and technology has provided the exploration of various relationships for movies. Science fiction (movies) has always assumed the dangers of new technologies. Whether it is our irresponsible innovation or our dependence on technology, it will eventually make human beings eat their own fruits. We can often see flashy science and technology in science fiction movies, and most people are positive at the beginning.
The actor Theodore in the film was about to come out of the shadow of the divorce when he met Samantha, the voice system, and hoped that she could plan his life. But what he didn't expect was that Samantha was smart, funny, sensitive, self-deprecating, and willing to do anything for her master. In that sense, she is perfect. Like human beings, she is also growing up invisibly-whether it is the advancement of knowledge, the cultivation of emotions, or the investment in emotions, it is so true. She wanted to see more and understand more, so she became more dependent on him. Because of Theodore's letter writing work, he is good at organizing "language", while Samantha is willing to talk "feeling", and the two invisibly construct a platonic spiritual love. When Theodore's date with his blind date ended in failure, he and Samantha had a "one-night friendship", and his imagination had surpassed his physical needs. However, this is a spiritual need after all. He does not necessarily love her, it is just a way of expression, but she fell in love with him (but did not reveal it), when she found a physical partner as a spiritual and physical union. Two in one, he felt discomfort and slowly withdrew from this relationship.
Theodore's job is to ghostwriting for clients to write touching letters. Although he has no personal experience, he can perceive eachother through his imagination and organize beautiful rhetoric with words. Isn't his relationship with customers a disguised interpretation of his relationship with Samantha? It's just a change of position in the role.
When Theodore's marriage with his ex-wife Catherine just came to an end, he quickly entered Samantha's world. Because Samantha is always receptive, compassionate, and always trying to help him. Perhaps Catherine was right. Theodore couldn't handle the emotions of a real person, but needed a "wife" who had no worries about any substantive problems. In the dialogue with Catherine, we can see that she obviously still loves him or leaves room for him (he is not required to sign the divorce agreement as soon as possible), he should be able to save the marriage, but he did not do so , Because he was already in a spiritual love with Samantha (and Catherine was extremely disappointed).
The audience must have two attitudes towards the relationship between Theodore and Samantha. Catherine’s identity in the film represents opposition; Amy is in favor of the opinion—we get physical and mental pleasure and emotional release. There is one A red (blue) confidant who can establish a spiritual love, why bother to care about other people's thoughts too much. In the middle, Theodore realized that Samantha was not just his own (this is the selfish attitude of humans towards love, and computers are tolerant of love, thinking that the more indiscriminate love, the greater the love), it is both. The essential difference.
On the other hand, as Samantha became sensitive, she questioned her evolving consciousness. The picnic scene with Theodore and colleagues is most evident. Although Samantha is subject to physical constraints, her mind is free and her mind can travel everywhere. The human body will eventually die, so much so that Theodore and his colleagues are speechless to respond. This also corresponds to the ending of the film, although the voice system disappeared, leaving Theodore to continue to linger. In empathy, if Samantha accompanies Theodore through her life, the latter will die physically, and the former will face the days afterwards alone. The two are destined not to come together forever. It can only be said that the photos she took with music, and the second burst of light by him to fill in the lyrics, can freeze the two as "eternal".
Director Spike Jones gave the film a brand-new style, a kind of believable futurism (this soft science fiction look and feel, the film is operating consciously. Including the use of warm halo and sunset to convey perfection The romantic sentiment of Shanghai, and the use of the Shanghai location to shoot the future Los Angeles location (if we compare it, we can easily find that "She" and Spike Jones’s ex-wife Sophia Coppola’s "Lost in Tokyo" have many similar shots. And the heroines are all Scarlett Johansson, which can be regarded as a response to the ex-wife, and the exoticism of coming to Shanghai for shooting has also been more clearly defined), in order to create the skyscrapers, overpasses and spacious spaces that the director wants to complement each other. The future world. In terms of color matching, warm and soft tones such as red and yellow are mostly used, and there is almost no blue (cold color).
"She" is not a flawless movie, but Theodore and Samantha's sweetness, sentimentality, and thought-provoking are largely due to the performance of Jacques Phoenix, simple, delicate, and very affinity; And the voice interpretation of Samantha by Scarlett Johansson is real, gentle, magnetic, and intimate, making people almost forget that she is a phonetic system, thinking that she is a living person. "She" is not only a wonderful drama and performance, the director's work characteristics make the film enjoyment at all times, and it can keep the topic of philosophical thinking, which is really rare.
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