What Is The Guiding Force In Rick Deckard's Her?

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As her glazed eyes scan the familiar surroundings, no shades of color are revealed; the crimson of a blood-stained sky is swallowed by the blackness of night and the luminous gray of hazy fog concealed by the sterile white of the sun’s rays. A world that was no longer understood lay before her; how should she traverse it if there is no light to guide her? Many characters throughout the course have found their own definition of a guiding force: money for Rick Deckard, the road for the man and the boy, and Samantha for Theodore. In Her, Theodore is trapped in an inauthentic world of love lettering writing and lust for operating systems. In his world, sex is no longer physical: it has become completely psychological and detached. Theodore pays

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