8/4/2023 0 Comments Her spike jonze trailer![]() Which is not to say the picture isn’t funny, from Theo’s early, spectacularly depressing yet hilarious phone sex session to the setup program’s cheerful “thank you” that interrupts his rambling monologue about his relationship with his mother to the awkwardness between Theo and Sam the “morning after” they first have phone sex (“I’m not gonna stalk you!” she insists). In one of the picture’s most daring visual moves, he slowly fades to black when Theo and Samantha first “have sex” (phone sex, basically) to keep from cheapening it, from letting it become a joke. ![]() and Shanghai) to his deft intercutting of idyllic flashes from Theo’s blissful marriage into his current despair. Jonze’s confident, clean directorial style continues to impress, from the crisp visual sense of his future Los Angeles (created by combining L.A. And as his best friend Amy, Amy Adams is (as she is in her best performances) a beacon of warmth, someone who can turn a tricky, bathos-prone line like “I want to allow myself joy” into a mission statement.Īmy Adams and Rooney Mara. As his ex-wife, Rooney Mara’s only got one full dialogue scene, but it’s a doozy, her sadness and regret telling us all we need to know about the otherwise unexplained buckling of their marriage. And I think I kind of overlooked the loneliness of the character? And in the first couple of weeks, Spike just crushed me.”Īt the other end of the line, Johansson couldn’t be better - she’s sexy, sparky, and wise, pulling off the tricky task of creating not even a fully formed, but forming persona (“Basically, I’m evolving,” she tells him early on, “just like you!”) with only her voice. Going into the movie, all I was concerned about was trying to feel natural with something that wasn’t there. We rehearse all the time, so I don’t think it was that dissimilar.” But he gives all due credit to his director for pulling the character’s sadness out of him: “Spike just broke me, to be honest. “I wanna say I trained really hard,” Phoenix said of the challenge, “but I’m an actor, so I’m accustomed to walking around my house and kind of talking to myself. Image Credit: Jason Bailey/ FlavorwireĪnchoring the film is Phoenix’s raw, open work, yet another in his string of eccentric yet painfully honest performances, one all the more impressive in that he plays most of his scenes technically alone, with long scenes, often long takes, where the camera is just holding on his face. Left to right: Actor Joaquin Phoenix, writer/director Spike Jonze, and actors Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, and Olivia Wilde. And then I thought about the idea of, what would happen if you really had a real relationship? And I used that as a way to write a relationship movie, and a love story.” I didn’t really think about if for a long time, but then eventually I thought about the idea of a man having a relationship with an entity like that, a really fully formed consciousness. A good decade ago, he became fascinated with a kind of instant messenger service, where you could have “conversations” with a computer program, though it quickly “devolved to where you could tell it was just parroting things it had heard before, and it wasn’t intelligent. Her is set in a Los Angeles that’s about five minutes into the future, its computer technology just a hair more advanced than our own, and when its trailer hit last summer, the shorthand for its plot in most quarters ( including this one) was something along the lines of “guy falls in love with Siri.” But in talking to press after Saturday’s media screening, Jonze (who both writes and directs) said the spark came much earlier than that. Early on, as he pours his soul out to her, he utters one of the movie’s key lines: “I can’t believe I’m having this conversation with my computer.” But he does, and he falls in love with her as well. ![]() ![]() And sure enough, Samantha, the voice (provided by Scarlett Johansson) that purrs from his desktop and smartphone, is bright, and funny, and wonderful - everything he can no longer imagine in a partner. He is, in short, the perfect audience for OS1, the world’s first artificially intelligent operating system “It’s not just an operating system, it’s a consciousness,” boast the ads. His wife is divorcing him, his job is depressing, and he lives a life of crushing solitude. When we meet Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix), the hero of Spike Jonze’s exquisite new film Her (which closed the New York Film Festival last weekend), he is a reservoir of melancholy. ![]()
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