"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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Extended Reading
  • Jonatan 2022-03-25 09:01:05

    Oh, it’s so painful to realize that you were everything to me, but I look back and I walked so lonely every step of the way

  • Ottilie 2021-10-20 18:59:21

    5 In a world with "her", you can wear headphones anytime and anywhere to share those inexplicable sadness and sadness; she is not Siri who echoes with the voice, but a "perfect lover" who truly understands you. In this dystopian era, the most distant and profound emotional connection is more than the sexual contact that directly hits desire. This is not the love between man and machine, but the love monologue of a technical house. Look, lonely people will always be moved by the self-created world.

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?