HER

This film touched our heads/minds but not our hearts. We rated it a 9 for the thought provoking ideas but only a 6 for the film as entertainment.

Joaquin Phoenix was very good in his role as an emotionally restrained man who befriends an operating system girlfriend named Samantha who is Scarlett Johansson (voice only). He falls in love with her and she encourages him to be more vulnerable and open socially and to be adventurous.

However, as the functions she is able to perform grow (her software evolves with time and practice and interaction with humans) and change, she also wants to broaden herself. This results in the discovery by Theodore (Joaquin) that she is an operating friend to over 800 other humans and loves most of them just as she loves Theodore.

The movie was slow and i just could not connect with any of the characters (amy adams plays a close friend and fellow apartment dweller of Theodore's). They didn't seem believable to me.

The film brought up some ideas that bill and i talked about: can a computer really "feel" (Samantha used all the right emotion words at the right time)?, how will communication between humans be in 10 years with so much of it already being done without any physical closeness?, can you love more than one person the same way?, what is it when talking to another that gives you validation and a sense of worth? is it just the words?

Theodore kept pushing his glasses up on his nose and that was annoying and  by the end of the film i was getting irritated at Samantha's throaty whiskey whisper way of talking.