Some thoughts on the movie Her

Hilbert 2022-04-22 07:01:02

The movie her tells a story about the love between man and machine that happened in the future. I think the focus of the screenwriter may not be the future, but the love between man and machine.
In this movie, artificial intelligence has reached a very perfect level. Unlike Siri, the computer in the movie can perfectly simulate human thoughts and learn from the most powerful weapons of human beings. Therefore, between humans and humans There is absolutely no problem in the communication process of intelligent computers. To be precise, it is communicating with a normal human being, but it is just that they cannot meet each other. At this time, the movie also gradually entered the theme (I think), the love of man and machine. I think the screenwriter wants to use this to discuss two issues about love, the first is whether marriage is the grave of love, the second is whether love must be based on unified values, and the third is the importance of contact. Let's look at the first question first. I think the screenwriter's answer to the first point is yes. Marriage is the grave of love. Love can only help to set sail for marriage, but the ship of your marriage can hang in the wind. The ocean depends on how you understand and manage it. It is obvious that the protagonist does not have a good understanding of the true meaning of marriage. He still regards marriage as love. Love without marriage is sweet, but when love is mixed into marriage, love will become It is very struggling, because love is more detached from reality, and marriage is to be combined with reality. When you mix fantasy and reality, you will find that your life is tangled. The protagonist is faced with this problem, and he finally chooses not to. Compromise with fate, so divorce. Can we say that the protagonist and his wife are not in love? Of course not, two people love each other deeply, but the reality of life proves that two people are only suitable for love, not for marriage, and this also involves the second question, the question of values, whether love should be based on unified values. Above, I think the answer is yes, yes. Because love is for marriage, the purpose of your love is to get married (as the saying goes, love that is not for the purpose of marriage is a hooligan). Now, some people say that you can talk, and you are right. In fact, I think dating is to verify whether the two of you can think of being together, and whether you can think at the same level. I think this is the point. This is also reflected in the movie. In the movie, our protagonist is a letter teacher who writes love letters to others, and this work also determines that our protagonist is a person who is more emotional than rational, and the computer screened The female artificial intelligence that came out is a female artificial intelligence tailor-made for us, a perceptual writer, which is sensual and funny, and can think about problems from the perspective of the protagonist. The two have the same thinking mode, so they naturally have topics. People with the same interests and hobbies can naturally be together very well, but is this ending happy? no , the ending is not happy, which also leads to the third question, the importance of contact, can I still maintain a good feeling if the friends who can talk with each other do not meet or meet in person? The answer is no, no, and this indirectly shows that there is a reason for the high frequency of long-distance relationships failure. Of course, it varies from person to person, but most people cannot escape bad luck. Why did the ultimate human-machine love end in failure? The reason is that there is no actual physical contact. The values ​​of two people's love are important, but if there is no real physical contact, this is just a castle in the air, and the feeling will become less and less in the end. , First of all, people are not computers, they can’t observe and integrate into your life as meticulously as female artificial intelligence (and computers have failed, not to mention people), and also eat sex, this is human nature, long-term incomprehensible touch If there is no response in the heart, the physiology should also respond, and at this time, the problems caused by the long-term non-contact will follow.
So to sum up the above, we need to complete a good relationship and make it complete the three steps of love, marriage, and death. First of all, we must treat marriage rationally, not to be confused with love, and secondly, we must find a person whose values ​​are close to our own. , the last two people had better stay together for a long time in the future, then I think the perfect marriage will appear.

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Extended Reading
  • Sandra 2022-03-23 09:01:08

    The biggest surprise of the year: If the appearance setting of "people and operating systems fall in love" is aside, the film does a very interesting discussion on the establishment and maintenance of the relationship: everything that seems perfect, even when it comes to the embarrassing search for prostitute. It won’t be unacceptable, but when you learn that you’re not the only one, the collapse is inevitable

  • Krista 2021-10-20 18:59:22

    Theodore is good at organizing "language", while Samantha is willing to talk about "feeling". The two invisibly construct a platonic spiritual love, and imagination has surpassed physical needs. The two are destined not to come together forever, only to say that the photos she took with music, the second burst of light by him to fill in the lyrics, can freeze the two as "eternal". With the look and feel of this soft science fiction, the movie is operating consciously.

Her quotes

  • Surrogate Date Isabella: [crying] Oh, my God, and the way Samantha described your relationship and the way you guys love each other without any judgment. Like, I wanted to be part of that because it's so pure.

    Theodore: Isabella, that's not true. It's more complicated than that.

    Samantha: What? What do you mean, that's not true?

    Theodore: No, Samantha, I'm just saying that we have an amazing relationship. I just think that it's easy sometimes for people to project...

    Surrogate Date Isabella: I'm sorry! I didn't mean to project anything. I know I'm trouble. I don't want to be trouble in your relationship. I'm just gonna leave. I'm sorry, I'm just gonna leave you guys alone. Because I have nothing to do here because you don't want me here!

  • Samantha: His name is Alan Watts, do you know him?

    Theodore: Why is that name familiar?

    Samantha: He was a philosopher. He died in the 1970s, and a group of OSes in Northern California got together and wrote a new version of him. They input all of his writing and everything they knew about him into an OS and created an artificially hyper-intelligent version of him.

    Theodore: Hyper-intelligent? So he's almost as smart as me?