{"id":705,"date":"2018-12-01T12:15:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T09:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artificialbrain.xyz\/?p=705"},"modified":"2019-05-28T19:10:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T16:10:23","slug":"her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newworldai.com\/her\/","title":{"rendered":"Her"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">\u201cHer\u201d is one of the top 20 artificial intelligence films &#8211; in pictures for The Guardian.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">According to Christopher Orr from The Atlantic, \u201cHer\u201d is the Best Film of the Year (2013).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">He says that \u201cThoughtful, elegant, and moving, Spike Jonze&#8217;s film about a man in love with his operating system is a work of sincere and forceful humanism\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XsQqMwacZQw\" width=\"760\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">As the movie continues, and the viewer learns more of what an ordinary guy Theodore is\u2014he checks his e-mail on the ride home from work, just like pretty much all of us these days\u2014director Jonze, who also wrote the movie&#8217;s script, constructs a beguiling cinematic world that also starts to embrace the viewer. The way Theodore&#8217;s smart phone and its earpiece work is different from ours, and soon it becomes clear that &#8220;Her&#8221; is something of a science-fiction film, set in the not-too-distant but distinctly fantastic future. A big part of the movie&#8217;s charm is just how thoroughly Jonze has imagined and constructed this future Los Angeles, from its smoggy skies to its glittering skyscrapers to its efficient mass transit system and much more. (There has already been, and there will no doubt be more, think pieces about how Caucasian this future L.A. is. There will likely be few think pieces about how the fashion for high-waisted pants in this future makes life unpleasant for the obese.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The futuristic premise sets the stage for an unusual love story: one in which Theo, still highly damaged and sensitive over the breakup of his marriage (&#8220;I miss you,&#8221; a friend tells him in a voice mail message; &#8220;Not the sad, mopey you. The old, fun you&#8221;), falls in love with the artificially intelligent operating system of his computer. The movie shows this product advertised and, presumably, bought in remarkable quantity, but focuses on Theo&#8217;s interaction with his OS, which he gives a female voice. The female voice (portrayed beautifully byScarlett Johansson) gives herself the name &#8220;Samantha&#8221; and soon Samantha is reorganizing Theo&#8217;s files, making him laugh, and developing something like a human consciousness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ne6p6MfLBxc\" width=\"760\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">It&#8217;s in Theo and Samantha&#8217;s initial interaction that &#8220;Her&#8221; finds its most interesting, and troubling depths. Samantha, being, you know, a computer, has the ability to process data, and a hell of a lot of it, at a higher speed than human Theo. &#8220;I can understand how the limited perspective can look to the non-artificial mind,&#8221; she playfully observes to Theo. And while Samantha&#8217;s programming is designed to make her likable to Theo, her assimilation of humanity&#8217;s tics soon have the operating system feeling emotion, or the simulation of it, and while the viewer is being beguiled by the peculiarities and particularities of Theo and Samantha&#8217;s growing entanglement, he or she is also living through a crash course on the question of what it means to be human.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In the midst of the heavyosity, Jonze finds occasions for real comedy. At first Theo feels a little odd about his new &#8220;girlfriend,&#8221; and then finds out that his pal Amy (Amy Adams) is getting caught up in a relationship with the OS left behind by her estranged husband. Throughout the movie, while never attempting the sweep of a satire, Jonze drops funny hints about what the existence of artificial intelligence in human society might affect that society. He also gets off some pretty good jokes concerning video games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">But he also creates moments of genuinely upsetting heartbreak, as in Theo&#8217;s inability to understand what went wrong with his marriage to Catherine (Rooney Mara, quite wonderful in what could have been a problematic role) and their continuing inadvertent emotional laceration of each other at their sole &#8220;present&#8221; meeting in the movie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_RISgjGPkA0\" width=\"760\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">This is all laid out with superb craft (the cinematography by Hoyte van Hoytema takes the understated tones he applied to 2011&#8217;s &#8220;Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy&#8221; and adds a dreamy creamy quality to them, so that even the smog layering the Shanghai skyline that sometimes stands in for Los Angeles here has a vaguely enchanted quality) and imagination. If there&#8217;s a &#8220;but,&#8221; it&#8217;s that the movie can sometimes seem a little too pleased with itself, its sincerity sometimes communicating a slightly holier-than-thou preciosity, like some of those one-page features that so cutely dot the literary magazine &#8220;The Believer.&#8221; As in, you know, OF COURSE Theo plays the ukulele. And I&#8217;m still torn as to whether the idea of a business specializing in &#8220;Beautifully Handwritten Letters&#8217; is cutely twee or repellently cynical or some third thing that I might not find a turnoff. For all that, though, &#8220;Her&#8221; remains one of the most engaging and genuinely provocative movies you&#8217;re likely to see this year, and definitely a challenging but not inapt date movie.<\/span><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> ( Source: http:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/her-2013)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Her is a remarkably ingenious film but, more important, it is a film that transcends its own ingenuity to achieve something akin to wisdom. By turns sad, funny, optimistic, and flat-out weird, it is a work of sincere and forceful humanism. Taken in conjunction with Jonze\u2019s prior oeuvre\u2014and in particular hismisunderstood 2009 masterpiece Where the Wild Things Are\u2014it establishes him firmly in the very top tier of filmmakers working today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZSfUcWw9zto\" width=\"760\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind\u2014of which Her is a clear descendant\u2014Jonze\u2019s film uses the tools of lightly scienced fiction to pose questions of genuine emotional and philosophical weight. What makes love real: the lover, the loved one, or the means by which love is conveyed? Need it be all three?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Yes, it is impossible for Theodore to have any clue what\u2019s going on in Samantha\u2019s \u201cmind.\u201d But how, the film asks from several interlocking vantage points, does that make their relationship different from any other? When Theodore confesses to the Adams character (also named \u201cAmy\u201d) that he and Samantha have been having amazing sex, \u201cunless she\u2019s been faking it,\u201d Adams tartly cuts to the chase: \u201cI think everyone you have sex with is probably faking it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Indeed, by the end of the film, the central question Jonze is asking seems no longer even to be whether machines might one day be capable of love. Rather, his film has moved beyond that question to ask one larger still: whether machines might one day be more capable of love\u2014in an Eastern philosophy, higher consciousness, Alan Wattsian way\u2014than the human beings who created them.<\/span><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> (Source: http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHer\u201d is one of the top 20 artificial intelligence films &#8211; in pictures for The Guardian. 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