In the yellow tones of Shanghai and Los Angeles, director Spike Jones asked Phoenix to talk about a perfect love. From a pessimistic point of view, perhaps the perfect love between people, from the process point of view, should be "meet"-"together"-"leave". After completing these three steps, we are in love. There will be many emotional changes in these three stages, which will be affected by many things, including life pressure, emotional changes, an umbrella or a promise. But from the most straightforward human mind, it is a story of beginning-ups-end. Therefore, the director will tell the love story like this, probably because Spike Jones is a pessimist.
This movie reminds me of "The Eternal Sunshine of a Beautiful Mind", which is a kind of science fiction method to tell the reincarnation of love. "Modifying memory" and "Man-machine love" are essentially the same. Most people who truly believe in love are always You must deny it to warn yourself not to be addicted, because you know that if you really do what you think, then you will be immersed in a huge black hole if you believe too much. After watching the movie, if you want to put a popular theme on "She", you can have many choices, but I think the packaging of science fiction is just to make people face the feelings more directly. The director breaks all the trivial life interference details in the film. What is magnified is the ubiquitous loneliness and Theodore's emotions, which rigidly push this private emotional change into the movie. Let people see the touch, absurdity, selfishness, etc. they have had through the interactions between Theodore and various characters (ex-wife and OS).
The voice of Scarlett Johansson’s Samantha OS should not be regarded as a machine. The film has a personality for this voice. In the setting of the story, Samantha should be a perfect "love newbie". The director also didn’t intend to explore the philosophical significance and ethical development of human-computer love (I said this sentence is actually not as confident, because Theodore is indeed a retro handwriting in such a high-tech environment in the future. I don’t remember when the last time I wrote a letter by hand), he used the voice of OS as a partner who fully matched Theodore. The convenience of technology brought people’s direct social interaction and incurable loneliness. In the past If I want to buy fruit, I still have to go out and chat with my neighbor’s aunt selling vegetables for a long time. Now I just need to sign the order directly on the order, just like the popular sentence on the Internet. In the past, I need three hours to cross the mountains and mountains to see you. Now it’s just one. The phone said not to go home. In fact, what I want to say is that our handling and maintenance of emotions are always fragile and stubborn, and our need for feelings has not changed. That is "accompaniment". This selfish idea has not changed, in terms of time or Space needs to "possess" the other party. This "possession" is also a manifestation of the other party caring about oneself. On the other hand, it is a kind of dependence in love.
The story is not complicated, but in the deliberately created atmosphere of alienation from the wandering future, the film's tension is expressed in Theodore's introverted feelings, and the feelings of his ex-wife Rooney and Samantha, and the reasons for the failure are similar. For the first paragraph, he himself summed it up very accurately: the two people are new in life, they want to grow together and change together, but the direction of growth is inconsistent, the pace is inconsistent, and finally they part ways. In the lonely divorce time, Theodore’s memories are full of happy times with his ex-wife Rooney in the past, and after contact with Samantha, like the sun shining into a dry gray valley, the colors of life seem to be brighter. Theodore found another kind of "companion", and Samantha's only drawback was that she could not have physical contact with her, and she had everything else available. She is empathetic, accompanied 24 hours a day, when revolving around Theodore around the clock, you can imagine two long-distance lovers who are passionately in love. The frequency of the two of them is the same, and they can be in the interspersed memories. Seeing that Theodore missed this feeling was like the first happy time with his ex-wife.
However, gradually, Samantha has desires and ideas that surpass Theodore. From the perspective of co-living and independent living, the inseparability of personal growth (desire growth, self-realization, etc.) and "accompaniment" does create a contradiction. When your partner can't keep up with your own rhythm, no matter how vigorous the love at the time, there will be entanglements and abandonment. The same thing often happens in reality. Once I saw such a problem on Zhihu, how can I continue with my boyfriend who is "not on the same level"? It is mentioned in the article that my boyfriend is a very idle person after dating, easily contented, not very ambitious, like to play DOT at home, the hostess is very worried about how to move forward. There are many answers on Zhihu, many of which are good, but the question raised by the subject probably has the answer in mind. It is very difficult for two people to keep in step with each other. In many cases, spiritual harmony requires synchronization of time and space, but after all, people are creatures with self-demand. Inertia will also arise, so that the gap between the two people will become wider and wider. It's like the sentence Samantha said in the play, "You write this book too slowly." In order to discuss pure love, the director put Theodore in the future, paired a "perfect" Samantha with a more alienated society, and put things in extreme positions to ask questions, in order to get the audience's own answers, go Seeing that humans are so ugly, selfish, and flawed everywhere, we still try to understand each other on the basis that we can never understand another person, whether it is facing people or more perfect machines.
Therefore, after Samantha left, Theodore wrote a letter to his ex-wife. In his love with Samantha, Theodore understood himself better. We are all changing. Hope this change will affect us. It is beneficial. I hope that we will witness each other's changes. No matter what, we will witness each other's changes.
Or, people themselves are lonely.
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