Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Her

Movie : Her
Drink : Corona and some sort of wine poured in the dark.




     This was by far the most frightening post-apocalyptic movie I have ever seen.  The future imagined as effeminate zombies roam the ultra clean streets in their ultra clean Goodwill finds, heads bent over tiny picture frame phones, oblivious to all external influence, except for maybe unisex clothing.  Seriously, why is everyone dressed like The Gap and Goodwill merged into the only clothing company on earth?
     When the main character , Theodore (of course not "Ted") isn't moping around at work at a job any normal person would have pooped on their desk and walked out on, he's moping at home.
His neighbors, who also shop at Gapwill, bicker with each other very calmly over whether a carefully ugly Amy Adams's documentary she's working on is any good.  It's something like forty minutes of just her mom sleeping.  Of course it's terrible, but in the future, much like today, ironically clothed hipsters seem incapable of telling someone that their sub-par projects, usually documentaries,  are crap.
     I'm not even going to really get into the premise of the whole human-operating system love triangle except to say that I think this whole film was maybe a pro-bullying message.  In the scene where Ted is starting to fall in love with his phone and his eyes are closed and she is telling him what to do and where to go and she tells him to spin around and he's in a public market twirling and twirling with eyes shut, head thrown back in laughter, pastel cardigan billowing out like a prom dress, I cant help but wonder if a normal guy with a pair of Wranglers and a Hanes T-shirt would have just gone up and slugged him, for his own good, and maybe told him to get a life.. would that have been such a bad thing?
     This movie had a few high points, like when Chris Pratt's character tells Ted that he admires him because he is like a man and a chick at the same time.  The sound of Scarlett Johanssen's voice.
     Oh, and best of all, the surprise twist ending where you find out that the title of the movie is referring, not to the voice of the operating system, but to Theodore.