"her" - warm loneliness (red analysis)

Hoyt 2022-04-23 07:01:06

This movie has a strong color contrast from the very beginning. It is because of the strong sense of color and some sense of future technology, so I realize that the male protagonist's heart is more lonely. It's doing nothing after putting down the phone, and this contrast is also reflected in the male protagonist's dress.

Red runs through the whole film from beginning to end, and it is the embodiment of a kind of emotional transformation. From the male protagonist's clothes to the room, everything reflects a certain emotion. When he was with his ex-wife, the red in the red room was warm. His red color was also taken away by his ex-wife after the breakup. At this time, the red color represented his inner yearning for warmth, but in my opinion, it was more like the loneliness in his heart. Nostalgia for the past.

Red has become the color of his appearance since his ex-wife left, and the red on the outside seems to blend in with the world full of red, but his heart is no longer happy, and the unhappy people will long for electronic He got a sense of happiness in technology, so he avoided and found the virtual person Samantha (like the three-dimensional Azhai who fell in love with a character in the two-dimensional and became a spiritual pillar) At this time, the male protagonist's red is because of Samantha The appearance of Sha jumped up, and on the first date after the male lead broke up, he chose to wear yellow clothes. The yellow color represented his cheerful attitude towards this date. This is because he became confident because of the appearance of AI. He regained his hope of reaching out to others, but this date ended in failure because he was too afraid to take responsibility for a new beginning.

When the relationship between the male protagonist and Samantha broke out, the red around him became dark red, and the dark red background highlighted his low mood and self-contradiction. After the male protagonist reconciled with Samantha, his red color became bright again, and their reconciliation in this section also represented his reconciliation with his inner circle.

When Samantha's gentle singing sounded, the warmth of red came again. This paragraph felt that Samantha's appearance not only brought love to the male protagonist, but also brought him reconciliation with himself and the world. Tolerance, Samantha took him into the red happiness again, and this happiness was rooted in the heart of the male protagonist until the end of the movie.

At the end of the movie, when Theodore and Amy went up to the rooftop and watched the whole city, I think all "her" left was correct, the male protagonist broke away from Samantha's dependence, but Samantha's red Warm happiness has always accompanied him to face the future life.

She (2013)
8.4
2013 / USA / Drama Romance Science Fiction / Spike Jones / Joaquin Phoenix Scarlett Johansson

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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.