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Nama  : Muhammad Fahmi

Kelas  : 4KA16

NPM  : 17114190

"HER"

First of all, the writer wants to give applause for this movie. This movie tells and shows about human relationships with an operating system that has artificial intelligence. The story of Her movie presented by touchingly, deeply, sadly, and certainly a little happiness, all mixed in a very beautiful touch. Technology has advanced to the point where people don’t need to type information into computers. They just speak to them and let them do the work.

Jonze, who also wrote the script, doesn’t pass judgment on the place technology has taken in people’s lives, at least not in clearly. Rather, we have Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix), whose job is to write love letters for people too busy or disconnected to write them themselves. No time for romance? Outsource it.

Theodore is good at his job. But he is separated from his wife, Catherine (Rooney Mara), and his loneliness is palpable. Then he sees an ad in a magazine about a personalized operating system that runs on computers and smartphones. He gives it a try, and thus begins his relationship with a system that calls itself Samantha, and he just talk with Samantha.

This isn’t grabbing your iPhone and asking Siri for directions to the nearest Applebee’s. This is an intelligent system that is capable of carrying on a conversation, learning and growing with the user. Yes, it can even participate in phone sex.

It’s a remarkable idea, made all the more so by an incredible off-screen performance by Scarlett Johansson. She gives Samantha more humanity than Catherine (“he’s in love with his laptop,” she tells a waitress). Johansson expertly navigates the emotional landscape, traveling the same hills and valleys a physical being would.

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Phoenix’s also shows helps sell the idea. We see Theodore’s loneliness and desperation. Yet through his work writing letters we see his capacity— and hope — for true love. Complicating matters is Samantha’s ability to learn and grow. There are also unexpected complications that seem obvious in retrospect but that never occur to Theodore (or us).

Their relationship mimics a real-life one. It’s kind of funny to see Theodore dancing around at a fair, holding his phone in front of him, spinning and laughing, talking to Samantha and showing her what he’s seeing through the phone’s camera. However, his joy is so infectious and we can easily overlook the weirdness of the situation.

Of course, if happiness can be rendered so realistically, so can heartbreak.

Title                 : ‘Her’

Director          : Spike Jonze.

Cast                 : Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson, Amy Adams.

Rating             : R for language, sexual content and brief graphic nudity.

Release Date   : 10 January 2014(USA).