What exactly is love? Is it the mutual possession of two independent personalities or the mutual maintenance of an intimate relationship? Is it the joint action of the body and hormones, the rubbing of the ears and temples of the skin, or the comfort of the lonely soul, the silent companionship of the soul when it sighs? If you look at "Her" from a simple point of view, you will find that it is a story about the future world where artificial intelligence can be personified and meet people's needs for spiritual companionship. In the same way, it will also be interpreted as whether love is one-to-one, or can it be infinitely broad and tolerant, no longer bound between two souls, and become the secret language for them to connect with each other. I thought that "Her" tells or attempts to touch on more issues, discussing what is the basis of an intimate relationship, what is the nature of marriage, how two completely independent souls can go from attracting each other to establishing a stable connection, Problems and challenges encountered when trying to go further.
Samantha should be a perfect lover. Intimacy, humor, understanding, respect, sharing, sexiness, companionship, meet all the conditions for the establishment of intimacy, except that there is no body. For a gentle and sensitive man like Theodore, to fall in love with such a woman seems to be a matter of course and right. It seems that such an intimate relationship can be maintained for a long time. But when Samantha told Theodore that she was in a similar relationship with 640 other people at the same time, Theodore understood that the exclusivity and privacy of love forced him out of control and he could no longer keep his composure and pretend they were The love between them is as sweet as yesterday. This prompted me to think about a question, does love necessarily show its exclusivity, or whether an intimate relationship can only accommodate the existence of two people? When we tell others that I am in love with a person, can we accommodate the existence of others in our hearts at the same time, and whether there is a hierarchy and degree of difference between these emotions.
The origin of love may be a sentence, an action, an eye, and a touch. All these basic fuses that ignite the flame of love are sent out by means of human flesh. There is a saying that we often fall in love, but not at all, just in love. We need to use language to talk. This language can be physical or vocal, but the most important thing is that we have to talk. Talking is the foundation of all relationships, including intimacy. Humans get to know each other and establish connections through conversations. Through conversations, they fill up the lonely hearts and make up for the lack of souls. We dance with other people's souls in every language confrontation, and accumulate love in every communication process. This kind of mental illness recognized by human society is a paranoid, a never-ending chat. Theodore and Samantha are talking and communicating all the time. Whenever they talk to each other, the world quietly disappears, crawls under their feet, and there are only two brightest stars in the night sky, shining on each other. . Think about "Love Before Dawn", think about Woody Allen's words, and you can understand that human beings cannot do without conversation, love cannot do without communication, only conversation, like Theodore and Samantha, Intimate, open, and non-taboo conversations can go straight to the temple of the soul, and let all the complexities of the world retreat around us.
How can love go further? The human soul is too complex, like a giant millipede. Whenever we climb over the ditches and ridges of life, every step under our feet will converge into the imprint of our soul. Humans are so lonely. This loneliness lurks in our soul all the time, bound by the flesh. We only have one mouth and one pair of eyes. We have seen too many scenery, but we can only recall them in our hearts. We have had too many experiences, but we can only hide them at the bottom of our tongue. Every second of throbbing, the sand gathers into a tower, and the confluence becomes a river. It is necessary to find an exit. In this world, there is only another soul that is strong enough, complex enough to accommodate the chaotic sound of soul tremors. Humans need intimacy because we are not strong enough to be alone in this world. Humans are fragile and selfish, and inherently lonely, so that each of us hopes to be embraced, caressed, cherished, and valued by another soul. Only this need to be needed can prevent us from being lonely by ourselves. Break down and overload the soul. The intimacy of two people, like the twin stars in the universe, because of their harmony, complementarity, and eternal movement, can promote this intimacy to establish and exist. Harmony is because the output of either party is overloaded, and anyone's emotional out-of-control may destroy this harmony, just like Amy and her husband quarreling over trivial matters of living habits. Complementarity is because of needs, too much loneliness, too little warmth, too much sadness, and too little joy. We need others, are needed by others, and continue to be needed. Eternal motion, because static means decay and death, and an intimate relationship that has no common experience and grows hand in hand is destined to be difficult to last, and it is also difficult to maintain its quality. Theodore and his ex-wife, the two experienced life together and grew up together, but it was difficult to walk together, and a relationship came to an end. In fact, it is difficult for me to understand how the relationship between the two of them went from blooming to withering. Theodore and Catherine have harmony, complementarity, and mutual growth. If I had to give a footnote to their rupture, I can only imagine that they can no longer be in sync. As Catherine and Theodore try to grow into more complete souls, their need for complementarity is diminished. You are so complete, yet so lonely, even getting close to me makes it hard for me.
Is the flesh a hindrance to us? When Theodore and Samantha reached orgasm through imagination, who was in Theodore's mind? Samantha felt Theodore's hesitation and struggle. She tried to use a body and shape her soul to combine with Theodore. At this moment, instead of being able to fuse with the flesh, the spirit was more deliberately separated. The body is the carrier of the soul, but also the projection and binding of the soul. We are limited by the flesh, but also realize our limits in the joy of the flesh. Samantha believes that sex and love can be separated. No, never has been. The spirit has no limit, and the soul has no representation. The Samantha in Theodore's heart is not a collection of representations, nor is she a puppet dressed in a soul coat. She is simpler, more complex, more concrete, and more than them. Abstraction, this is an insurmountable moat, this is an indescribable mystery. From the moment Theodore falls in love with Samantha, the hug that ends will come. Not just because of the absence of the physical body, but Samantha will never be found, because she is higher than existence and therefore does not exist. It's like you want to describe a psychedelic dream, but in the end you babble and say nothing.
Who is Samantha? Samantha is the eternal love of parallel time and space, and the eternal home of countless souls. Samantha is an exporter with infinite souls and infinite possibilities. This is the fact that we are the most powerless to face, and it is the hidden pain that we can't tell. Human beings, how weak, in your fragile body hides the subtlest feelings, the most unbearable desires, the most painful sorrows, the most intoxicating desires. You try to pick all the apples in the Garden of Eden, but you end up eating only the next one. When Theodore heard Samantha's confession, he finally understood the most hidden pain of mankind. Our soul is so weak compared to Samantha. Deep powerlessness pervades the whole body, because I understand that I can no longer catch up with your footsteps and kiss your forehead. The pain of eternal life, the pain of infinite, haunts me, I am no longer so unique, so unique, so that you are deeply needed by me.
Catherine says Theodore can't handle a real relationship, but I don't see it that way. Theodore wrote so many love letters, letters home, touched so many souls, experienced so many lives. He's too sensitive and too emotional. As Paul said, he's half man, half woman, and he's a woman at heart. He has a sensitivity that surpasses that of ordinary people, and he has read too much life. His soul is overloaded, and he is about to exceed the limit of what the body can hold. How can a soul so profound be content with an ordinary soul in an ordinary world full of flaws. It's not that he can't handle a real relationship, it's just that the real relationship is incapable of satisfying him.
In the final scene of the film, Theodore and Amy cuddle with each other, watching the sunset quietly. I believe they have understood that the soul of artificial intelligence is surreal, oversaturated, and divisible. Since you can't meet such a significant other in your life, learn to accept your flawed counterpart. Because it is too sensitive and becomes more eager to embrace, every lonely soul cannot resist the cold of the universe alone.
On every seaside where the golden sun shines on the sandy beach, on every tram ride through the city, on every lonely and sleepless night, on every lonely and empty cold street market, on every game After the movie that never ends, in the eyes that look to the future hard at every moment, may you, accompany me, talk about an eternal love, drink a pot of drunken wine, sing a forget-me-not, and do not tell the sorrow of separation.
I'm lonely, touch me if you can.
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