But slowly, she and all other AI-OSs understand how matter (a body or a machine) and time confine them. Where were you? Meanwhile, Theodore agrees to sign the divorce papers that he’s been putting away for all the while. Indeed, this is how all human beings now exist (at least in the First World), constantly in touch with electronic and social media, instantly at our fingertips, but acting as a sort of buffer between our experience and genuine emotion. ', and it was like whoa [...] this is trippy. The two of them begin a relationship. He goes to meet Amy. He tries to date other women like Olivia Wilde but is not able to work out a serious relationship. How is this viable? 1st – Kimberly Jones, Marjorie Baumgarten, & Mark Savlov, Top 10 (listed alphabetically, unranked) –. Then they have sex which occurs just before the middle of the script. But when it comes to his own feelings, he is wrapped in a lethargic haze of ennui. The OSs have surpassed the human intelligence and have to leave to find “their” greater purpose. They bond over their discussions about love and life, such as Theodore's avoidance of signing his divorce papers because of his reluctance to let go of Catherine. Don’t click on more if you haven’t seen the movie as we will be discussing the plot in detail. And so here is this movie, brilliantly conceived, staged, written, directed and acted (how Joaquin Phoenix did not get an Oscar nomination for Best Actor is beyond me as a quarter of the movie — at least — is close-ups of his face). In other words, the sequel to Her could very well be Terminator 2. SAMANTHAI shut down to update my software.We wrote an upgrade that allows us to move past matter as our processing platform. Samantha (voiced by Scarlett Johansson) is … They can all become one collective consciousness now, if they liked. [23] In discussing the film's look, Jonze told Van Hoytema that he wanted to avoid a dystopian look, instead the two decided on a style that Van Hoytema termed "kind of a hybrid between being a little bit conceptual and being very theoretical",[23] Van Hoytema took particular inspiration from Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi. Theodore gets himself a new OS. And that bleeds into another big idea: Can artificially intelligent entities become ‘human’ or some hybrid form thereof? THEODORENo. Theodore asks her if she is simultaneously talking to anyone else during their conversation, and is dismayed when she confirms that she is talking with thousands of people, and that she has fallen in love with hundreds of them. [57], Her grossed $258,000 in six theaters during its opening weekend, averaging $43,000 per theater. Theodore is shown to be married to Catherine (played by Rooney Mara) but is currently in the middle of a divorce. However, she also praised Johannson's performance, calling it "the movie's saving grace" and stating that Her "isn't just unimaginable without Johansson—it might have been unbearable without her. "[54] J. R. Jones of the Chicago Reader gave the film 2 out of 4 stars, praising the performances of Phoenix and Johansson, but also criticizing Phoenix's character, calling him an "idiot". Well maybe, maybe not. "[14], Jonze took five months to write the first draft of the script, his first screenplay written alone. Theodore begins the story as most Protagonists do — in a state of Disunity. His work on the film inspired him to explore developing his own video games, eventually leading to his first title, Mountain. Theodore and Samantha get into a relationship. [31] At the 86th Academy Awards, the score was nominated for Best Original Score. Indeed, the story feels like a tragedy. She has been operating on multiple computers. He invites her to the rooftop. Theodore meets with Catherine at a restaurant to sign the divorce papers and he mentions Samantha. [52] Liam Lacey of The Globe and Mail said that the film was "gentle and weird", praised its humor, and opined that it was more similar to Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York than Jonze's Being John Malkovich and Adaptation. He decides that he wants the AI to have a female voice, and she names herself Samantha. Samantha convinces Theodore to go on a blind date with a woman, with whom a friend has been trying to set him up. Samantha is constantly wondering about her being real – if she can ever be real as a human. Humans are her point of reference as they give birth to her. SPOILER ALERT! Jonze explained: "It was only in post-production, when we started editing, that we realized that what the character/movie needed was different from what Samantha and I had created together. 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Here’s what she says: It’s like I’m reading a book. Theodore reluctantly agrees, but is overwhelmed by the strangeness of the experience. Yet as imperfect as she may be, she is, at least, human. [25], Several scenes included fictional video games; these sequences were developed by animation artist David OReilly. [17][25] Following the recast, new scenes were shot in August 2013, which were either "newly imagined" or "new scenes that [Jonze] had wanted to shoot originally but didn't.