The filming took place in Shanghai. This bustling, bright, but lonely city.
The opening feature of the male lead reminds me of Woody Allen's "Annie Hall". But the difference is that Theodore's slightly changed expression is half-smiling, sincere and serious, but he is telling someone else's story. He is a letter writer who helps customers write letters to other people.
When people say what they want to say to each other, they need another person to express; people's most sincere feelings are just written by another person. What happened to this world.
In this city, everyone walks on the street wearing small headphones and lives in their own world. No one raised their heads to talk to each other, no one communicated and touched others, but they were full of loneliness. A world where you can simply command everything in one sentence, convenient and fast, but what a lonely era this is. The movie does not use overly high-tech stuff, which means that such a future is very close to us. In fact, this isolation from the world and from human beings has gradually manifested in our society. Technology replaces all real interactions.
After returning home from work, Theodore played games and ate alone; lay in bed and couldn't sleep. Memories with his wife pressed down on him like a mountain, and loneliness spread to every inch of his skin. There is something missing, maybe it's impossible to notice. (The color of the memory is warm and soft, and the reality is cold and dim. It reminds me of Nolan's "Memento" also used a similar shooting method.)
Theodore put on the headset again and began to search the chat room. The urge to communicate with people oppresses everyone, who wants the satisfaction of the soul, the care of the same kind. But they are still bound by technology, hiding behind technology to try to accomplish all this. When the wonderful girls on the Internet couldn't satisfy Theodore's emptiness, Theodore ran to technology - the latest artificial intelligence system OS1. The system is autonomous and can understand you, analyze you, and cater to your needs. And can choose to use male or female voice system, Theodore chose female voice. So the next story happened.
Scarlett won the Best Actress at the 2013 Rome Film Festival for this film. The sound alone made me admire her even more.
Her voice is not deliberately sexy or squeamish, just naturally slightly magnetic and hoarse, easy-going and brisk but soft. In the plot, as Samantha, who only has a voice, seduces Theodore's heart, the audience can't help but start to imagine her appearance, her actions, and her character is a little bit clearer, and gradually begins to feel that she is like a living person Same. This kind of acting really has to give Scarlett a huge compliment here!
Having said that, Joaquin, who plays Theodore, is also a strong acting school. Scarlett couldn't play opposites with him face to face. It was not easy to express her emotions just right by her voice, stories, and her own acting skills. Also a huge thumbs up to Joaquin!
Samantha gradually brings Theodore's life back on track. He started to laugh a lot, started to talk to people, and he also had ready-made beauty guides when playing games (this is really happy, I also want male gods to read guides to me). During this period, Samantha also gradually evolved, upgraded, and began to have "feelings" and "feelings", and happened to Theodore on the day he was drunk... How to say this... Sound love? ……
The camera was pitch black during the process, as if to imply that all this was nothingness. And that seems to be the only reasonable way to shoot. After the end we saw the brightly lit city under the dark night sky, Theodore said to Samantha: "Just now I went to another place with you and lost my way, just you and me". The sun came out, and Samantha said, "Everything else is gone. I like it, Theodore."
Theodore put the smartphone in his breast pocket, and the camera became Samantha's eyes.
She began to see his world, so that wherever he went, it seemed that she could go with him. They began to share the world together, and life that had been bleak and meaningless became full of fun. He was running at the subway station, laughing at the beach, she sang to him, her laughter accompanied his, he seemed to have a young love again. Is the power of love really so great that even if the other person has no entity, can't touch, can't hug, just because of the other person's character, the most real character, can he deeply love him?
Theodore and Samantha were also confused about whether love could stand without getting along and having sex. So Samantha contacted a service (I don't know if it was intimate or weird), it was a real woman who put on headphones to date Theodore, but Theodore still heard Samantha's voice, which is through the help of The power of others to have physical contact with Theodore. However, all of this made Theodore feel very strange, but it was self-defeating, and it also made them more aware of how fragile and illusory such a relationship was. And the illusory reality brought by technology has gradually swallowed Theodore.
Theodore seems to have crossed a mental barrier after being enlightened by his friend Amy (Amy Adams) and having a heart-to-heart talk with Samantha. He came to accept Samantha as she was, and Samantha came to accept the fact that she was not physical. They continued to get along in this way, relaxed and happy. They began to get along more calmly, like two old friends who had known each other for many years. It turns out that it is really possible to love TA because of a person's truest character. He played the piano and she hummed. Scarlett's voice is so charming and full of French flair.
But sad movies don't end like this.
One day Samantha meets Ellen, another super artificial intelligence system, and she begins to feel uneasy that she, the system, is changing too quickly. Such feelings cannot be put into words, and Theodore will never be able to feel the same. , A few days later, when Theodore called Samantha, there was no answer. Turning on the smart machine, there are only a few words: Operating System Not Found (the operating system cannot be found). The panicked Theodore ran out of the office, but it was only a false alarm. It turned out that Samantha was just going to update the system. But so Theodore learned that while Samantha was talking to himself, he was talking to a lot of other people/other systems, and was in love with a lot of people at the same time.
It turns out that Samantha is not only his own, and Theodore is heartbroken. For Samantha, however, this is unexplainable and uncontrollable, and it doesn't mean she loves him less. Humans and machines have fundamentally different ideas about love. Theodore believes in the exclusiveness and fidelity of love, while Samantha believes in the infiniteness of love: "The human heart is not a cardboard box, it will not be filled. The more you love, the bigger your heart will be."
To be honest, if there is Chuan couldn't help but want to use such a system.
There is someone who can accompany you when you are sad and lonely, bless you when you are happy, and encourage you when you are down and helpless. It allows you to let go of your defenses and reveal your vulnerability and heart. This kind of constant companionship will really be both happy and painful.
In the movie, Samantha said something that I especially liked.
"[The past] is just a story we tell ourselves."
We should let go of the past and move forward. Theodore meets Samantha, and she pulls him along the way, bringing him out of the shadows of the past. And in our life, will we be so lucky to meet such a person? Whether there is or not, it is time to Move on, moving forward is the only way. No matter how difficult it is.
As Amy said: "Life is too short, all I want to do is make myself happy. So leave him alone." The
movie's title is "Her", I think because Samantha doesn't Just a cold system, she is a living being to Theodore. Even if you can't meet, touch, hug and stare into each other's eyes, but in this more sincere relationship than anything else, Samantha is the most real existence for Theodore. He had never loved anyone like this.
Speaking of this, I think long-distance/national love people will probably have a deeper feeling for this movie.
Finally, there is a useful little knowledge in the movie: eat fruits directly, and juice vegetables. Because juiced fruit loses its most valuable fiber, leaving only sugar.
Last but not least, the OST of this movie is really beautiful. Please listen carefully while watching the movie.
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