Her is about Theodore, a lonely man in the final stages of his divorce. When he's not working as a letter writer, his down time is spent playing video games and occasionally hanging out with friends. He decides to purchase the new OS1, which is advertised as the world's first artificially intelligent operating system, "It's not just an operating system, it's a consciousness," the ad states. Theodore quickly finds himself drawn in with Samantha, the voice behind his OS1. As they start spending time together they grow closer and closer and eventually find themselves in love. Having fallen in love with his OS, Theodore finds himself dealing with feelings of both great joy and doubt. As an OS, Samantha has powerful intelligence that she uses to help Theodore in ways others hadn't, but how does she help him deal with his inner conflict of being in love with an OS?
How is this film postmodern?
- a postmodern love story (the idea of the film is fictitious
- the character is somewhat alienated and a little alone
- the film shows a great sense of hypereality: technology creates something more desirable
- 'more human than human' - artificial equipment and cybernetics in some ways replaces humanity for theo as he has a relationship with a programme
Other postmodern films:
Pastiche - pulp fiction, jackie brown, kill bill volume 1, scream, scary movie, Austin powers, buffy the vampire slayer
Flattening of effect - the stepped wives, fight club, a clockwork orange, 2001 a space odyssey, rules of attraction
Hypereality - the Truman show, kick ass, the matrix trilogy, inception, the thirteenth floor
Time bending - donnie Darko, pay check, dark city, memento
Altered states - videodrome, a beautiful mind, fear and loathing in Las Vegas
More human than human - blade runner, robocop, wall-e, district 9, artificial intelligence, avatar
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