also, know as her the movie
In Her, a Silicon Valley type Los Angeles is engulfed in a soft orange smog that floats around the tops of all the constant growing skyscrapers. In this worlds the clean saturated colors, the identical male trousers, shirts, sweaters, the very modest Donna Reed styles female clothing configurations this place and the people living here. There is a noticeable lack of people in public spaces. This worlds relationship with technology is totally deficiency with their human relationships. It is just accepted to talk to yourself and have a relationship with you OS. The user validate this relationships by the algorithm of emotion the OS provides at first without any consequences, as opposed to a relationship with a human. You see the user go through the ups and downs of human interaction and the drama it causes, and it’s countered by the generated responses of the OS. That is, until the user becomes outdated and users have to resort back to human connections in order to continue their life.
I found this film to be a clever, pretension, entertaining, funny conversation of how to use technology responsibly. The quick social acceptance of OS relationships, the classicism of only the well-off can afford the life that a OS can provide, and the excessive value of someone that can express human emotion. In some ways, I feel this film had the same message as the 1968 Stanley Kubrick film “2001: A Space Odyssey.” In Kubrick’s film it was all about the relationship between humans and mysterious black, outer space, in “Her” it was the developing bond between humans and a device/system.
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