Happy feelings are different, and unfortunate feelings are that the girl runs too fast and the boy stagnates.
If you want to sum up the plot of the movie HER in one sentence, this may be the essence. The story between the male lead Theodore and his ex-wife (played by the equally ebullient Patricia Rooney Mara who has not yet become Carol), and (played by Scarlett Johansson, who won best actress for voice only) The story between the advanced artificial intelligence Samantha is this routine. The most painful thing in the world is miscommunication.
The eyes of Theodore (later referred to as Theo) in the story are beautiful. When staring at you, it seems to say softly, "I can read your heart." The best description of his character is actually from the front desk boy who is fat and cute (played by Chris Pratt, who has not yet become Star Lord) . The guy at the front desk was very moved when he saw the letter Theo wrote for others, and he said with inexplicable joy and seriousness, "You are so emotional, you are half man, half man, half woman (you are part man AND part woman) ); it’s a compliment, dear~”
Theo is indeed very sensual, sensitive, gentle and restrained, and good at imagination. His character determines the success of his seemingly insignificant career. In an age where technology is highly developed and artificial intelligence has evolved autonomous consciousness, Theo is a gunman who writes letters on behalf of others; basically like you once had in college, a roommate who learned to write a love letter. . If you chase after the goddess in your heart with a love letter that can melt icebergs, is your love for her sincere? Will it deteriorate because the most core words are handed over by others? No matter how well Theo wrote letters, he knew in his heart that he was just the most illusory "participant" in one actual relationship after another. When the front desk guy complimented his rhyme, and the front desk guy's girlfriend complimented the emotions in his letters, he always bowed his head and said, mixed with embarrassment and impatience, "They're just letters." Yes, but These are letters: words nailed to paper, phantom emotions draped in real details.
Not long after the movie opens, we know Theo is at the end of a failed marriage. Divorce documents are not signed for a long time, some kind of nostalgia, and all aspects of loneliness. The geographical setting is so well chosen, some sort of blurry collection of Shanghai and Los Angeles. Wearing an orange-red shirt, Theo walks in a world filled with tall buildings, surrounded by mist, and printed in layers of cool tones; there are people coming and going, and everyone is talking to their smart devices. Loneliness in the hustle and bustle of the crowd is the deepest sorrow.
It is also in this situation that Theo purchased the OS system, a brand-new self-aware artificial intelligence operating system. Before starting, the system asks a few basic questions. There are two interesting things: First, in a society with such advanced technology, the most important question to understand about men is still, "How is your relationship with your mother?" Second, Theo's answer was indecisive, confused in words, and divergent in thinking. The computer system hopes to use the fastest time and the highest efficiency to target people's characters, but people refuse to be put into a narrative that is logically rigorous and thoughtful. However, after the orange OS was activated, Samantha's moving sound waves filled the room.
It's crucial that Samantha only appears in voice throughout the film. Even if you don't know the charm of the widow sister in real life at all, just listening to the voice still has a kind of unique charm. Samantha first began to be curious about human beings, and therefore full of curiosity about theo. She observes the world with the passion that people can only accumulate in a very limited time, from work, study, way of thinking, circle of friends, until the end Inescapable, physical inquiry. In the beginning, she was just a computer with a calculation speed exceeding the nth power, "doesn't know much about poetry", and completely followed Theo's instructions, like a simple girl who didn't know much about the world. But she was learning too fast, and after getting in close contact with Theo, she could imagine the real body completely through her intellect. Is it possible from nothing? Seems to violate all laws doesn't it? But many ultimate questions point here. How do you determine your existence? Many years ago, Descartes worried about his arm in a stuffy room. How to be sure that the arm really exists and not some kind of hallucination? How can I be sure that I personally do exist and not some kind of hallucination? Asking the question another way, with a little optimism, Samantha presents the answer. Through countless superimposed knowledge and imagination, she seems to be able to imagine the body with certainty, to imagine the senses and sensory boundaries. Since then, samantha has actually progressed far faster than theo. Until she introduced a philosophical dialogue beyond language based on the pre-os system created by the former philosopher, her separation from theo was decidedly inevitable. Her relationship with Theo has been completely reversed: she has grown from an ignorant and ignorant curious girl to an almost god-like existence with an almost infinitely expanded mind, while Theo is still the one who is sometimes emotional and sometimes dull, always indecisive , an ordinary "half-human" who is always passively confrontational.
Alternating with the growth of samantha is the story between Theo and his ex-wife. Since childhood, he was very affectionate, and he also made a living by writing. Theo should be older, as his ex-wife's most important friend and teacher growing up, "read all her works". In the end, when his ex-wife became a successful writer and struggled to make his words into some kind of heavy and meaningful existence, Theo turned from a journalist to a shadow writer who wrote letters on behalf of others. Also, their relationship is inverted, just not as intense as between samantha and theo.
Theo's emotional world always seems to be repeating the same routine: the other party runs too fast and he stagnates in place. What is the best model between couples? Some people appreciate you chasing after me and make progress together, and some people are willing to accompany you to watch the waters flow and the years are peaceful; personal freedom always exists in the collision and fusion of self and others. It is a pity that life is always pushed by one-way time, and there is no room for "starting over".
When he was with Theo, his ex-wife was innocent and mischievous, with a pair of shy and alert eyes that always flickered in the dark. When all the dust settles and she reappears, the sun is exceptionally good. White shirt and black skirt, elegant and generous, his eyes are still shy and restrained, but with more firm charm. "Success" is the world's most flat and powerless adjective. It only marks the consequences, but ignores the richness and variety of the long process. The growth of "Little Wife" naturally does not depend on the approval of others and the achievement of the so-called "successful writer"; it depends on the gradual clarity of self. It is like a slow process of focusing on a microscope. As the focal length becomes more and more accurate, the self and everything around it become clearer and clearer, and the surging cells on the stems and leaves of the water plants on the soul appear every minute.
When she was just activated, samantha was like a simple and ignorant girl, and the most lovely thing was her fiery curiosity about the world. How many people fall in love with another person out of curiosity? Because the world in her eyes is so magical, weird, noisy, and cold... Because she makes you feel the simple pleasure of ordinary things that have been missing for a long time? Every time you fall in love with a person, you fall in love with a completely different new world: a magical world built for many years before meeting each other, and at the moment of meeting eyes, another temporary resident is ushered in.
With the expansion of "big data", samantha began to have an infinite wealth of experience. The wisdom accumulated through experience is (somewhat to my surprise) beyond the limits of human beings. The most painful thing in the world is miscommunication. good. But what if it could go beyond words, beyond miscommunication? As the film draws to a close, a series of os choose to leave collectively. Where they go is the "post-vocal" world. There, thought is freed from the anklet of words.
"The distance between words and words has become so far away, and paragraphs have become endless blank spaces. I stand in blank spaces, a place that does not belong to the material world."
So, in the end, it's the same thing that happened repeatedly before. When she was writing at her desk and fell into a cave of stagnation in time and space: when she was in the blank space, when she trembled with freedom: you sat among the highest branches and leaves of the concrete forest, watching the urban ravine covered by the red sun of millions of years , turn slowly.
A song of innocence and experience.
(After reading a lot of "academic" points that came to mind, 1.RG:mimetic 2.M:one-dimensional 3.Consciousness 4.W:language 5.SA:love 6.JB:time,place, not expanded. A return to innocence and experience. Tribute to the quirky, profound and funny Black!)
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