Her

A beautiful movie both in aesthetic and as a work of fiction, Her is a MUST WATCH, even if it’s a hard one. It will make you cringe, make you shift in your seat. It proposes this magnificent, disturbing reality which is part Blade Runner, part Lost in Translation. (If the latter was good, sorry not sorry.) It’s a terrifyingly human love story-Ironic for obvious reasons. We as humans are naturally social creatures, and Her ominously portrays how that can be manipulated. Theodore’s relationship with Samantha isn’t real, and he knows that from the beginning. She isn’t really there, even if she constantly wishes she could be. But as the film goes on, Theo, as well as maybe even the viewer, start to question something we know as fact. She begins feeling real, getting more and more proficient at emulating our behaviour. Characters surrounding Theodore completely accept their relationship, creating an eery sense of normalcy in something we know is strange, weird, wrong. Whilst Samantha may not be, her impact on him is very, very real, which is shown throughout, but particularly displayed in this film’s simply perfect ending. She’s gone. Her influence isn’t. A Relationship with artificial intelligence is becoming an increasingly common practice, and that terrifies me. Something that gives the same dopamine hit as human interaction, yet is void of the intricacies of it. What do you think it’ll be like in say, 10 years? 20? Speculative science-fiction is a concept dating back centuries. But when what’s contained in this film is rapidly approaching us, will we learn from the media we’ve consumed? Or not? There’s only two possibilities, for AI will almost certainly be a prevalent topic for the rest of our lives. Is it Fuck AI, or Fuck AI?