Hard to classify if this is an unusual soulful love story or hardcore scientific fiction ........let's just say, both.
It's an extraordinary and intense love story between human and a highly advanced, artificially intelligent, operating system. In fact when I put the picture here, I kept having this feeling that something is missing, because Samantha ( the OS) is a strong presence and such a pleasing personality, that you don't want to miss her out........but then, she's only a voice.
It's an extraordinary and intense love story between human and a highly advanced, artificially intelligent, operating system. In fact when I put the picture here, I kept having this feeling that something is missing, because Samantha ( the OS) is a strong presence and such a pleasing personality, that you don't want to miss her out........but then, she's only a voice.
The scepticism is not just ours, Theo starts with scepticism too, but somehow Spike Jonze, the director seems to have rational answers to all the subtle and sublime facets of the relationship. It's set in a not too distant, but surely fantastic world. After all, we already have Siri on the iphone.
Theodore ( Joaquin Phoenix), a sensitive guy who writes touching personal letters for others for a living, is damaged and hurt over the breakdown of his marriage, and yet when he meets his wife for the divorce the inadvertent emotional lacerations continue. And all this makes him this sad and mopey guy.
Theodore ( Joaquin Phoenix), a sensitive guy who writes touching personal letters for others for a living, is damaged and hurt over the breakdown of his marriage, and yet when he meets his wife for the divorce the inadvertent emotional lacerations continue. And all this makes him this sad and mopey guy.
He then has a device with a new operating system, that is built with an ability to not just think and compute, but to also feel.......and what's more, it's a self learning system that grows on emotions as well, an entity in it's own right.
The Operating system christens itself Samantha ( Scarlett Johansson's voice...sweet, warm, sensual and playful......brilliantly done).
The shift in his personality is so beautifully brought out, where he goes from this mopey, boring guy back to a smart and fun loving guy. When Dhruva first told me to watch the movie, I was like...'how, dhruva...what about touch, feel, see and stuff?' and he's like...'watch ma, you'll realize those are not as integral to a relationship as we think they are'. And here, it almost seems so.
It has it's super quirky moments, like when Samantha, starts to process all of Theo's work, and being a computer has the ability to handle huge loads at great speed...and she tells Theo..'"I can understand how the limited perspective can look to the non-artificial mind". And at one point Theo realizes that Samantha is simultaneously talking to 11500 humans and is in love with 641, and she's telling him how he should not be upset, as it in no way impacts his relationship with her, her heart can feel as much too.
The shift in his personality is so beautifully brought out, where he goes from this mopey, boring guy back to a smart and fun loving guy. When Dhruva first told me to watch the movie, I was like...'how, dhruva...what about touch, feel, see and stuff?' and he's like...'watch ma, you'll realize those are not as integral to a relationship as we think they are'. And here, it almost seems so.
It has it's super quirky moments, like when Samantha, starts to process all of Theo's work, and being a computer has the ability to handle huge loads at great speed...and she tells Theo..'"I can understand how the limited perspective can look to the non-artificial mind". And at one point Theo realizes that Samantha is simultaneously talking to 11500 humans and is in love with 641, and she's telling him how he should not be upset, as it in no way impacts his relationship with her, her heart can feel as much too.
There's an underlying, kind of offbeat wisdom on human relationships under all that technology and sci fi that's genuinely engaging and provocative.
If you can stretch the mind and thought, a definitely worthy watch.
If you can stretch the mind and thought, a definitely worthy watch.
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