![]() When Rooney Mara makes a sharp appearance as Theo’s ex-wife, her incredulousness at his inability to date a real woman is both a relief and off base. Theodore and Samantha’s problems are normal-affections don’t always align, or the two project too much onto each other-and singular: for instance, the fact that Samantha has no physical body. ![]() Genre (s): Sci-Fi, Drama, Comedy, Romance. What follows is a relationship drama that’s complicated, meaty, and challenging in its implications. Sarah Comrie is a 34-year-old physician assistant from San Diego. Heartbroken after the end of a long relationship, he becomes intrigued with a new, advanced operating system, which promises to be an intuitive entity in its own right. All take a long time in the editing room, up to a year. ![]() He’s happy to comply, showing her his world as if it were new to him too. In some ways, the Spike Jonze romance Her is a different beast for the inventive director-writer-prankster it’s the first feature he wrote on his own and in some ways it’s a lot like his other films (Where the Wild Things Are, Being John Malkovich, Adaptation). Her job is to keep track of Theo’s affairs, but Samantha is interested in more, being curious about Twombly as her link to the corporeal. The facts are these: in a not-so-distant-future Los Angeles, Theodore upgrades his OS from the generic to “Samantha” (voiced by Scarlett Johansson, in her trademark tones), artificially intelligent and with a constantly evolving understanding of the world. ![]() Improbable, yes, but Jonze treats the affections of Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix, a manchild disguised in wool slacks) as perfectly natural rather than transgressive, forcing a comparison between the carefully crafted tomorrow of the film and our present-day world that makes the story all the more resonant. It’s easy to imagine the elevator pitch for Spike Jonze’s latest: a man falls in love with his computer operating system. ![]()
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