Her. Screenplay by Spike Jonze. Warner Bros., 2013. Film. Spike Jonze’s Her is a critically-acclaimed film with its main plot featuring a sensitive, lonely man named Theodore Twombly, a ghostwriter for BeautifulHandwrittenLetters.com, who writes in the “customer’s” point of view to their intended recipient. He has been pondering over despair ever since his ex-girlfriend Catherine left him. One day, he discovers a new artificially intelligent operating system named Samantha, who develops into its own entity. They proceed to fall in love over time as they get to know each other. Her is Jonze’s directorial debut, which has earned a plethora of awards and nominations (primarily for the screenplay) from the likes of the Academy and Golden Globes.
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People throughout the movie are always looking down on their phone and talking to it while walking alone. Jonze’s screenplay argues that people would rather communicate with technological devices as opposed to a human being because of the comfort it provides.
Jonze’s Her provides a philosophical insight on the near future (or even today) where people only consult with their technology for interaction. This can be related to how people are always scrolling Facebook and communicating through factors such as likes and comments. There is no real-life interaction in play in both Her and …show more content…
He then proceeds to claim that Americans enjoy self-reliance and individualism, thus being less likely to live in solitude. The author ultimately explains that Facebook isn’t exactly making people lonely; people are already lonely before logging on Facebook and thus bringing their emotional baggage onto the Internet. He draws from Claude Fischer’s research, saying that “the quality and quantity of Americans’ relationships are about the same today as they were before the
People throughout the movie are always looking down on their phone and talking to it while walking alone. Jonze’s screenplay argues that people would rather communicate with technological devices as opposed to a human being because of the comfort it provides.
Jonze’s Her provides a philosophical insight on the near future (or even today) where people only consult with their technology for interaction. This can be related to how people are always scrolling Facebook and communicating through factors such as likes and comments. There is no real-life interaction in play in both Her and …show more content…
He then proceeds to claim that Americans enjoy self-reliance and individualism, thus being less likely to live in solitude. The author ultimately explains that Facebook isn’t exactly making people lonely; people are already lonely before logging on Facebook and thus bringing their emotional baggage onto the Internet. He draws from Claude Fischer’s research, saying that “the quality and quantity of Americans’ relationships are about the same today as they were before the