![]() I couldn't get with Her (Scarlett Johannson) at all. In other words, the exact opposite of this guy. ![]() I didn't even vaguely buy him as a professional greeting card writer: such a person would have to be extroverted and charismatic, seeing the good in all people and especially themselves. I think even a Tamagotchi would have shorted out its own batteries rather than spend another minute with him. The Joaquin Phoenix character was a boring, irredeemable sadsack. But from the very first scene to the very last, there was just nothing for me here. So it's fair to say that I was willing to give Her more than a fighting chance. I would rate Jonze's previous movie Adaptation (2002) as one of the greatest, and certainly the cleverest, movies ever made. I feel that the comparable movies Ex Machina and Blade Runner 2049 did a much better job with their themes of what it means to love and to be human. I failed to connect with anything that was going on at all, and found myself pretty much counting down the minutes until it was over. Thus, such an unusual pair fails to the final stage of commitment.This movie was a complete misfire for me. Theodore’s disappointment and breaking up are connected with what Samantha considers development step when she becomes polygamic. When reality sets in, the protagonist cannot take the fact that Samantha simultaneously communicates with thousands of people. The stages of romance and stability were integrated because Samantha is an emotionless stable system while Theodore admires this fact. Hence, they have gone through stages of relationships in an extraordinary manner. Regarding Theodore and Samantha’s relationships, it should be stated that they have formed their relations in an unconventional fashion as Samantha is not a human. ![]() Samantha abandons Theodore and prefers him to her interpretation of the essence of relationships – Samantha starts communicating with more than 8000 people simultaneously. However, Samantha also implements the competing conflict strategy, which means that she strives her idea to become a human as close as possible whatever it takes (The Participation Company). She guides him through crowded places, assists while playing computer games but also encourages him to meet with friends and find new romantic relationships. Samantha agrees with the ideas and aspirations of Twombly but to the exact extent. This approach means that the one implementing the accommodating strategy accepts an interlocutor’s wishes, not absolutely (The Participation Company). Samantha might apply the accommodating conflict strategy regarding her relationships with Theodore. They reveal their interests and pain and start trusting each other more. However, during the development of the plotline of Theodore and Amy, the self-disclosure interpersonal concept takes place. He alienates himself from society and the ones who love him and chooses the relationships with the program instead. Idleness and isolation from other people are the main traits of the protagonist. The primary intercultural concept that might be applied to the relationships in the film might be alienation. Furthermore, Samantha is developing throughout the plot, starting as an obedient and appeasable assistant that wants to get a body and become a human and ending as an independent polygamous creature. Emotions of the emotionless machine is one of the main issues in the film. She accepts Twombly’s views and decisions, trying to assist him in all spheres of life. The second character is Samantha – the program that Theodore starts loving as if she was a real person. He is skeptical of the idea at first, but soon finds himself engaged in constant communication with it. After seeing an impressive advertisement of an operating system with a virtual assistant, Theodore purchases it. Theodore is going through a rough patch in his life, as he recently divorced his first love – Catherine, and that is where the audience finds him – unhappy, lonely, and deeply depressed. ![]() The plot of the film is built around a man named Theodore Twombly, who works for a company writing love letters for other people in some undetermined future.
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