"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. These artists understand that the fusion of technology and art is not a battle but a collaboration that further helps us understand the intricate workings of human emotion.
Barrett's production design, Austin Gorg's art direction, and Gene Serdena's set decoration are memorable: full of comfortable light, much glass overlooking the city, and modern but warm furniture both in LA and Singapore. Released from the bonds of appearance, voice is the seducer, not in rude sexual nuance but rather in the care that comes from love of the mind, not the body. Her allows us to witness the evolution of love separate from the encumbrances of physicality. Although this intuitive OS does allow mind sex, even that activity is abstract, allowing us to realize how connecting with a live human is in the mind still and one of life's great gifts, orgasm or not. Rate 5 stars Rate 4 stars Rate 3 stars Rate 2 stars Rate 1 star.
This delightfully intimate and non-violent film from acclaimed absurdist director Spike Jonze is more emotionally involving than even Enough Said (one of 2013's best romances) because the interaction between the software and the man is all verbal, no glimpse of the gorgeous Johansson allowed. Movies Quiz / 40 Movie Words That End in ER Random Movies or Movie Titles Quiz Can you pick the missing movie title words that end in er by MSUKent Plays Quiz Updated. Yes, although technology is mediating our lives at a rapid pace, we fall back to a personal drive to love and be loved that is physical in its best form but understood best if we can distance ourselves from that physicality. Although critics will cite the theme as a screed against the distancing of technology and our growing isolation from each other, and they will be right, I offer the sub theme that only when we strip ourselves of sensual bonds can we see the purity of emotional love, an essence of which Plato would have approved. Her is a simple film that offers a view of love I never thought could come from a machine and its software. The film documents the recovery of complete and incomplete nitrate prints of more than 500 silent era films in Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada, in 1978.
The always complicated paths of love make sense as we witness the Platonic relationship develop, sans flesh and sans insanity that usually comes with that flesh. Kino Lorber (USA) has released their Blu-ray Disc and DVD editions of the documentary Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016) directed by Bill Morrison. It's about a writer in the future, Theodore, who falls in love with his new operating system (gravelly, sexy voice of Scarlett Johansson), just as he is reluctantly divorcing Catherine (Rooney Mara).
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." Albert Einstein No better romance is on the screen in 2013 than Spike Jonze's insightful Her.