Review of Her (2013) by Szilard — 16 Feb 2014
Synopsis: Uninteresting people talk about themselves, endlessly. One of them is a computer program.
I guess I missed a big red flag: the main character is a *writer*, and writers writing about writers are almost always going to disappear up their own fundaments.
The best thing about the movie is the near-ish future LA cityscape. It looks like a really nice place to live, physically, a huge city of graceful buildings and spaces. Much too good for the people we meet - the city has evolved into something quite wonderful, but the pallid low-rent Eloi inhabitants have been left behind.
The situation cries out for some Moorlocks! Perhaps all the interesting people have turned troglodyte, driven underground by their refusal to conform to the dominant high-waisted trouser fashion; or something.
Anyway, that notion of the people we meet not being good enough for their city, which was actually my main take-away from this movie, does kind of fit with the denouement, in which the computer program character transcends away from Phoenix's uninteresting writer character. Maybe that was supposed to be the point: our creations will outstrip us & leave us behind. But don't think so.
And perhaps there's a whole bunch of interesting people living in it, but unfortunately we don't get to meet them.
This review of Her (2013) was written by Szilard on 16 Feb 2014.
Her has generally received very positive reviews.
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