two years since I watched "her" for the first time, but I have never stopped thinking about this movie. Write down some new feelings about it.
Preface
Marriage can be said to be a reproductive and property maintenance system that originated in human society. Humans enter marriage for the purpose of legal sexual behavior, so as to use marriage to ensure the long-term upbringing of offspring. At the same time, the family under marriage is also an economic combination, which can maintain the common property of both parties through social contract (in ancient times, women also belonged to men's property).
However, in modern society, fertility is no longer the main goal of people, and property can be guaranteed through a sound legal system. Economic independence makes women no longer the appendages of men, and the system of marriage cannot ensure love. So, will the institution of marriage continue to exist?
Teacher Li Yinhe once gave four reasons why marriage will eventually die out. For example, the marriage system violates human nature. Animals living in groups have two attributes: natural attributes and social attributes. The marriage system is a social attribute, but it violates human nature. The natural attributes of human beings (human emotions are fluid, not fixed).
On the other hand, the lifespan of human beings is getting longer and longer, and the validity period of love has been difficult to cover the lifespan of human beings. Marriage requires both parties to live together for decades, but for love, can its shelf life be so long?
There are also two aspects: the rise of women's independent consciousness and the change of sexual destination. The purpose of sexuality has long been changed from childbirth to pure pursuit of pleasure, and marriage is no longer the basis for sexual behavior.
At the same time, the total adult single population in the United States has exceeded half, and the unmarried population in the highly developed Nordic region has also approached half. The current marriage system will inevitably face severe challenges in the future.
At the same time, I think that with the continuous development of the social economy, the differences in each person's growth and living environment will become larger and larger, and the "commonality" between people may become less and less, and it is necessary to have an intimate relationship such as love. It will also become more and more difficult, let alone maintain love for decades.
If in the future, there is a person who can complement your personality, fully respect your wishes, and have common interests and hobbies with you, as if it was tailor-made for you, who would he be?
Obviously, only artificial intelligence, and with such a perfect object, can there be true love?
"her" tells such a story.
The protagonist Theodore in "her"
is a letter writer who specializes in writing letters for others. The letters he writes are often affectionate, elegant and delicate, which amazes colleagues. One colleague even said that he is "half a woman". It seems to be able to see through other people's minds and read other people's thoughts.
But it is such a person who seems to have a high emotional intelligence, but he is not very good at expressing his feelings. Even though he and his wife were childhood sweethearts who grew up together, he had read all the words she wrote and knew her well, but he couldn't get into Theodore's heart. So, they still got divorced.
He lives alone in a spacious and empty house. In addition to going to work, he usually plays games at home. When he can't sleep at night, he will have "phone sex" with strangers on his mobile phone. He encountered an understanding dilemma: the other party suddenly asked him to strangle her neck with the tail of a dead cat, Theodore was startled, but he could only do it, the woman climaxed with satisfaction, but he continued to fall into loneliness. Obviously, the other party is a sm controller, which does not meet his expectations. He just wants to simply "play a tube" to resolve the emptiness in his heart.
Friends will also introduce him to blind dates to help him get out of the shadow of divorce. But just before having a happy dinner with the other party and returning home to enjoy fish and water, the woman asked: When can I see you again? After Theodore said some excuses, the other party continued: "You know, at my age, if you are not serious about me, I will not continue to waste time on you", Theodore paused, slowly Saying: "I don't know" and saying that they should stop here tonight, the woman leaves behind "You're a weirdo" and turns away.
Why does such a writer who can help others write their own voices encounter so many communication difficulties in his own life?
First, let's talk about the background of the story. Although the story takes place in the future Los Angeles, Spike Jones has put a lot of filming locations in Shanghai, China. This is not only because Shanghai is more "futuristic" than Los Angeles, but for many audiences, they have not seen cities other than New York, Los Angeles, Paris, etc. "Unfamiliarity" and "alienation", which are in line with the future setting of the film about the failure of human communication to communicate with each other (interestingly, there are quite a lot of warm colors in the film, which produces a different kind of delicate feeling ). Coupled with the unique thick smog, the temperament of the whole film seems to be covered with a "magic" veil, which has become the best manifestation of the alienation of people in the future society under the development of science and technology.
And this kind of alienation stems from the magnification of the "differences" between people that I mentioned in the preface. In the future society with highly developed technology and economy, people's living environment and entertainment methods are becoming more and more complex. A different detail may give rise to different personalities and thoughts, and the "commonality" between human individuals may become less and less. Although the means of communication are becoming more and more advanced, people can easily communicate with everyone, but it does not stop the gap between people's hearts from getting wider and wider. It seems that love is no longer so easy to maintain, so later Theodore's friend and her husband's eight-year marriage also came to an end. The cause was only a quarrel caused by the wrong position of the shoes. The failure of communication seems to be the future society. Communication difficulties that will inevitably arise in China.
However, Theodore suddenly came into contact with the latest artificial intelligence OS1. Her name is Samantha. Not only does she have a sexy and charming voice, she speaks witty and humorous, but more importantly, the other party seems to understand Theodore's inner thoughts. Get along very well.
Gradually, the two developed a relationship from friends to lovers. Theodore took Samantha to play games, go shopping together, chat together, and even had an "imagined" sex in the middle of the night. But after this "making love", Samantha also doubted herself: Can she achieve true love without a body? Samantha began a constant learning and self-exploration.
So after Theodore signed the divorce agreement with his ex-wife, Samantha, who was somewhat jealous, asked a girl who provided physical replacement services to help her and Theodore achieve real physical sex. Theodore hesitated, but also Had to agree. But just when Theodore and the girl were making out with each other, he suddenly stopped when he looked directly at each other. He said, "I don't feel right" and then gave up and continued making out. The girl left in pain. A quarrel broke out between Samantha and Theodore, and it wasn't until the next day that contact was restored, and Samantha had gained a new understanding of the relationship. But this has already laid the groundwork for the final outcome of the relationship between the two.
At the end, Theodore learns that Samantha is actually chatting with 8,000 people at the same time, and she is in love with 641 people at the same time. Samantha says that her love for him will not decrease as the number of people increases. , on the contrary, it will increase, but Theodore can't understand, the loyalty and beautiful fantasy he has established for love have been shattered, and Samantha bids him farewell and enters a deeper spiritual world, beginning eternity. exploration.
Indeed, for artificial intelligence, the mechanism of learning will make them more and more "powerful", compared with the vast information world, human emotions are only a trivial thing. Due to the separation of the body and the spirit, artificial intelligence will inevitably pay more attention to the fit of the spiritual level, and they will certainly explore the vast and profound worlds of physics, philosophy and the universe, and feelings can also be one-to-many rather than one-to-one. , because the more people you love and the more you know about people, the faster she will "grow", so Samantha will say "I don't love you less because of this."
In the eyes of a "narrow" species like human beings, it seems that affection should be a single relationship, and love should be single-minded. The difference between the two is geometrically magnified after the accumulation of time, which eventually leads to irreversible spiritual alienation. contradictions cannot be reconciled.
After this love affair between humans and AI, Theodore seemed to understand his selfishness, he began to understand the nature of love, and he finally understood the reason for Catherine's departure, and wrote an apology letter to his ex-wife. AI is like a human mentor, helping Theodore grow.
From this point of view, even if it is AI, it cannot be the sustenance of people's love in the future. The gap between the two is too large, and human beings will lag behind the growth of AI sooner or later.
At the end of the film, Theodore found Amy who had the same experience as him. The two sat on the roof together and enjoyed the beautiful city night scene. The film finally focused on the relationship between people. .
Amy finally leaned against Theodore's shoulder suddenly, as if to say:
even if marriage will eventually die, love will not.
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