Unreachable lovers are unreachable at any time

Amelia 2022-04-21 09:01:09


Theodore just wants to be accompanied by someone who has the same soul, and grow old slowly. He was tired of unsatisfactory quarrels with his ex-wife, despite the sweetness of the past. He repeats the boring job of writing letters for people, despite good reviews from the industry saying he has a delicate heart. He longs for tenderness, but refuses physical contact with a strange woman, even though he can coax a woman to orgasm on the phone. He could have no flesh, as long as he could fall in love with a computer operating system, even though he snubbed Samantha because of a few taunts from his ex-wife.
Halfway through the movie, I feel the greatness of future technology, everyone has edges and corners, and it is inevitable to bump into each other when getting along, but the system is customized according to your personality, to match your mood ups and downs, how comfortable it is to get along.
But gradually found that the director will not easily let go of the future world, the system has the function of self-renewal and upgrade, more and more powerful. And Theodore is still immersed in the sweet complacency of "one person's heart, white heads are inseparable". Yes, she can be the same as herself, how perfect; she has no body, I don't dislike it, how safe this relationship is. He didn't realize that in the middle of the night, Samantha's phone call was abnormal until the system went off the next day, searching for Samantha in a whirlwind way.
The bigger blow was that he knew that he was not Samantha's "only", he was one of thousands of chat partners and one percent of love objects. At this time, what should he do. Let go, free and easy? To put it simply, I recalled the hardships of looking for her in the first few seconds. Heartbroken, angry? so what? She's just an operating system, in the form he initially accepted.
Yes, she can be the green tea bitch in other people's mouths, she extracts knowledge at a speed that human beings can't match, climbs to heights, and then throws off human beings. If concessions are fulfillment, failure is happiness, and giving up self-worth and self-improvement is right, then she is outrageously wrong.
There is no free gift in the world, just as there will be no only happy echoing. I have been watching Theodore spend each day quite lonely, watching him yearn for tenderness and communication, and at the same time afraid of giving and hurting. At the end of the film, I find the spare tire who is also a fallen person from Tianya to watch the scenery on the rooftop. I don't know what the director wants to convey, as if the emptiness after the climax of self-masturbation.
I admit that Scarlett's voice is very sexy, but won the actress only for the "voice" part of her acting skills, will such an award be a bit paranoid; I admit that if the lover can take care of my emotions 100%, it will be perfect , but if the love object only has the intangible part of "thinking", how long can the excitement last.
The intelligence in the film is more intelligent, so when she leaves, she can still say that she is unfeeling, and complaining can be considered an outlet, so that's fine. It's a lot easier than admitting that you are only partially healthy, so you only want to find a partner who is incomplete, and greedy only wants someone to obey you.

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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.