“Her” could end up being the most thought-provoking film of the year (it technically opened in 2013). It’s not “The Act of Killing” type of fare, but it grapples with a lot of existential ideas about what makes us social creatures with the capacity for that thing called love. It should be on your list of films to see as soon as possible. That is… if you can get past these sorts of feelings about the premise:
RT @YaboySkeete: Son they made a movie about a cracker that's in love with Siri smh
— BIG MAMA. (@HUMonTHESE) January 7, 2014
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I can’t overstate how much I liked Her, which avoids so many flaming-barrel-like dangers in portraying love in the near-future that it’s like a live-action Donkey Kong kill screen attempt.
It’s been slowly rolling out to theaters and is only arriving in Austin this week, so I think it’s a movie that people are going to be talking about for a while as they catch up to it. It was what was on my mind for much of the holidays (I was lucky enough to see it in December).
I wrote an essay for my place of work about the movie, comparing it to a British anthology TV show called Black Mirror that Pablo and I both got our panties in a bunch about when it aired on DirecTV. I’m surprised we haven’t done a comic about that. Hey, I just had an idea for a comic! To the comicatorium for a bull session!
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