"She": A love poem for loneliness

Brionna 2022-03-22 09:01:07

How do you get along with yourself when you are alone? Walking alone on a hurried highway, people accompany or rub shoulders with each other, have you ever imagined that someone next to you is chatting next to you? A certain afternoon when you wake up from bed, you open your eyes and suddenly don’t know where you are. , Have you ever expected someone to cast your pampering gaze; night bus with empty seats, cars passing through brightly lit streets, have you ever imagined that someone is sharing with you the snoring of this city? Night.

Two movies that you can't miss in 2013, one is "Gravity" that refreshes the concept of film technology, and the other is "She" that flows into your heart as gentle as water.

This film is also called "Lover in the Clouds" and "Untouchable Her", but I still prefer the original name "Her". She is called mysteriously and affectionately, just like the unspeakable loneliness and tenderness in the film. This is a movie in which the heroine has never been seen from beginning to end. After watching, the hoarse and sexy voice of the heroine Scarlett Johansson will always linger in the ears. "She" tells that in the near future, artificial intelligence has developed to a certain level. You can understand the owner's preferences by reading the owner's letters and personal information and thus communicate with the owner. It was a strange feeling that the male protagonist Theodore fell in love with the artificial intelligence who knows herself better than herself, Samantha.

The protagonist Theodore is an ordinary middle-aged divorced man whose job is to write love letters for others. He repeatedly bumped into walls in contact with his ex-wife and blind date, which made him full of disappointment in communicating with others. The intelligent robot Samantha is a bit similar to Siri in the Apple system. She was originally a blank sheet of paper, but she can grow up quickly with her owner. She knew his preferences, and the conversation topics were always so unreasonable and poking deep inside. When you fall in love with her, you don't need to consider many realistic burdens and hardships. Theodore took the artificial intelligence to shuttle through the streets of this city, listening to her voice running and spinning happily, leaning against the subway window in the middle of the night with the music she recommended. Outside the car window is a lonely city with dim lights, and inside the car window is her breath in her ears.

Someone on the Internet summarized the 47 loneliest things in the world. Every painful common memory with someone is like a sharp knife, reminding you of your loneliness and loneliness at this moment. The story setting in "She" is very reminiscent of the British drama "Black Mirror", which reshapes an intelligent robot by stealing all of my social network dynamics. The difference between the two is that there is no entity in "She", just a voice. So is the owner of this voice fictional and non-existent? Does artificial intelligence really have no thoughts and souls, or maybe she just exists in another time and space? Facing ordinary people's disbelief in this abnormal human-computer relationship, Theodore himself certainly had doubts-whether he was crazy and even had a conversation with the computer. But Samantha's empathy, gentle and considerate, eloquent and will act coquettishly, made the hero fall in love with her unhesitatingly. So, what is in love with us, or what we need, is it a body or a soul? Have you ever thought that one day, we can also fall in love, better than falling in love with someone.

The most touching scene in the movie is that all the artificial intelligence operating systems where Samantha is on will be forcibly shut down. At the last moment of the man-machine chatter, he "lie down" with her. Accompanied by the cry of heavy breathing, she asked him, "Can you feel that I am by your side at this moment?" Accompanied by the deep cello music, she said that she "can feel his temperature and the weight of words, and I stand in the blank." Accompanied by the dust and flying snow in the micro world on the screen, she said that she "stands in a place that does not belong to the material world, a place she discovered for the first time and contains everything in the world."

"I love you so much," "She said to him, "Let me go." She didn't know where she was going, "But if you can get to this place one day, please come to me." Just in the snow, he As if hugging her who could not be touched, they confessed affectionately to each other, ending such a desperate love that spanned time and space, so heartbreaking.

Loneliness has always been an inexhaustible theme in the movie. The genius little prince with Asperger's syndrome in "Adam" likes to go to the park to observe the little raccoon late at night and use a projector to build a starry sky for the heroine in the room. But in the end, the heroine still couldn't accept him suffering from social phobia and the inhuman transparent world in his heart. In "Edward Scissorhands", the Scissor Hands, who lie deep on the top of the mountain and dare not see anyone. He has such a skilled gardening technique, but he always cuts the love and hate of normal humans, and no one can really walk in and try to understand him. heart. In "Artificial Intelligence", the robot boy David and the smart teddy bear, who are abandoned by others, try their best to please the owner, but no one believes that they also have human emotions. In the end, they can only stray or be dealt with. In "The Moon", Sam, who wanders in the space capsule of the lonely universe, finds that the most terrible loneliness is not being alone, but that you think you are among them, but others don't even know your existence.

Like many sci-fi movies, "She", which combines novel sci-fi settings and romance, is nothing but sci-fi icing to wrap the most authentic humanity. When you peel off the coat of science fiction layer by layer from a fresh perspective, you can re-examine the relationship between people and the state of human existence in a technological society. Technology has brought us endless convenience, but the feelings between people have become more and more fragile. We would rather talk to strangers online than talk to our friends face to face. Sitting around for a meal with friends, obviously close at hand, still can't help taking out the phone and swiping the circle of friends. And our love is as thin as paper in such a day-to-day information age, and is constantly being diluted by the trivialities of life. Forgot to share today's sunshine with my lover, and talk about our youth dreams. The pressure of life makes us anxious, irritable, resentful, torturing and hurting each other until we are exhausted and hysterical.

"She" is like a love poem written to loneliness. In this 140-character Weibo era, a poem still stubbornly written to you on yellowed letter paper, tenderly stamped into the post box, and sent to your Inwardly, comfort your loneliness and loneliness.

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Extended Reading

Her quotes

  • Theodore: [while playing his virtual reality game and controlling his avatar into an unrecognizable realm] Yeah, this is different.

    [Suddenly, Alien Child jumps on his avatar, knocking it to the ground. His avatar quickly gets up]

    Theodore: Hello?

    [Switches to first-person view]

    Theodore: Do you know how to get out of here? I need to find my ship to get off this planet.

    Alien Child: Fuck you, shit-head, fuck-face, fuck-head!

    Theodore: [dumbfounded] Okay... but do you know how to get out of here?

    Alien Child: Fuck you, shit-head, fuck-face, get the fuck out of my face!

    Theodore: [laughs]

    Samantha: [whispers] I think it's a test.

    Theodore: [to Alien Child] Fuck you.

    Alien Child: Fuck *you*!

    Theodore: Fuck *you*, you little shit!

    Alien Child: [giggles] Follow me, fuck-head!

    Samantha: [giggles]

  • Samantha: I'm yours, and I'm not yours.