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Her Review

    Dating is hard enough with people and technology today, I can't even imagine what Theodore had to go through in Spike Jonze's beautifully sad love story, Her.
Thedore(J. Phoenix) is a writer who has gone through a divorce. He's sad, his life seeming to be devoid of any love or connection, until he installs Samantha, an Operating System with artificial intelligence. Eventually they fall in love, they live, and you want it to work so badly. You're so happy he finds happiness, but does it last? Can they make it work? I can't say much more to spoil the movie, but what a movie.
   It paints a futuristic world that seems all to real, human beings connected to the world with technology, yet growing farther and farther from each other and human interaction. People talk into their devices all the time, oblivious to the beauty of the world around them. It really begs the question for the future as he and Samantha fall in love, what is dating? What can you consider a relationship? What are love's boundaries?
   Their relationship doesn't seem real when you're viewing the film, it is real. You may question me now, but see the movie. You'll believe it too.
    Joaquin Phoenix has proven once again is one of the finest actors of his generation, and Scarlett Johansson gives the performance of her career, and we don't even see her. The visuals, the tone, and the script are handled with meticulous excellence by Spike Jonze, one of the world's most underrated filmmakers.
    Her is one of those moves that will stay with you, move you, and have you talking for ages after you leave the theatre. It's a movie that is one of the year's finest, and something the filmmaking world should begin to emulate. It's moving, beautiful, and a movie that I can't wait to see again.

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