Her Movie Essay

Going back to the value-oriented relationships introduced by Liao, there are three main categories of values: physical, spiritual, and instrumental; movie Her focuses highly on the spiritual value-oriented relationships, demonstrating how emotional connections are the basis of strong interactions. Samantha, which is able to adapt quickly and adjust any aspects of her to appropriately accompany the users, is able to obtain humane characteristics via interactions with Theodore. Customized by the system, Samantha is created to be a ‘match’ for Theodore, helping him organize and keep together his life after an emotional separation from his wife. As they spend more time together, sharing their thoughts and values, Theodore slowly but steadfastly …show more content…
In Her, those who lack of other human touches are often shown to have fallen to be attracted to these new OS’s. The scene during which Theodore realizes that he is not special, but merely one of the many people Samantha has been connecting with, it finally occurs to him about how humans and computer are different. As Samantha is a program that is able to change itself to fit many other users, she tells Theodore that she is engaged in romantic relationships with 641 others, and is communicating with 8,316 other people simultaneously. This point of the plot draws a very thick and clear line between A.I.’s and humans, possibly suggesting that we are never to be replaced by any other beings. Illustrating how the definition of ‘love’ is different between computers and humans, Jonze shades that connections between computers and humans could be a mere imitation, and that A.I.’s aren’t able to truly understand a human being. In other words, Jonze shows that even if human relationships are replaced by A.I.’s, we are bound to come back to each other, whom we are fully and truly able to