#Her, obsession software

Lusting technological obsessions. An exercise in postmodernism dehumanized.

Adam Spiegel is an American filmmaker and German Jewish origin, whose stage name is Spike Jonze, and has directed a handful of so rare and interesting films, crossed all of a strange personality. Titles like Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Where the Wild Things, in addition to countless documentaries, shorts and music videos of Bjor, The Beastie Boys and The Chemical Brothers, to name a few. I mean, this director plays all the sticks of audiovisual language, and perhaps that is why he is a compendium of avant-garde cinema, with all the risks that entails, including the possible rejection of the public.

Her written and directed by him, is a fascinating and disturbing exercise in style that engage the viewer gets so unusual. The essence of this sci-fi drama is the relationship in the not too distant future sets Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix) with custom operating system on your computer, named Samantha. It's sophisticated artificial intelligence, which is related to the computer owner through a human, capable of expressing more complex thoughts, even take the form of feelings and emotions in a human-like voice amazing.Theodore, in divorce proceedings, with a social life reduced to rubble, lives between the development of his solo work, and home video game sessions. Put bluntly: Theodore is the prototype of postmodern man freaky profoundly confusing and essentially only. When, being lost in the infinite grayness, is made with this revolutionary operating system, provided such a sensual voice of Samantha (Scarlett Johansson), gives himself completely to an ongoing relationship with the "feminine" operating system that just falling . Is a relationship without risk, controlled almost one hundred percent, which is not excluded even sex. The moment you cross the dangerous border Theodore stopped considering Samantha what it really is, an operating system, and begins to treat her like a human being, the game becomes extremely dangerous.

Like any science fiction movie worth its salt, hides a clever metaphor for our time. In this case, reflects an indisputable fact: the new technologies have become a filter between us and reality, and not a few cases where the person ends up with the world by switching off and replacing the display generating your digital device. The loneliness grows and individualism encysts. If Blade Runner revolved around what happens when genuine human desire for immortality, turn on a machine, Simone spoke to when a virtual character had to be considered human. Here we presents something much less distant, when we prefer to live cyber relationships, faceless, carnality without the vertigo produced tangible freedom of human beings. The result is a medium-term increase in dissatisfaction and emptiness. Certainly, the film proposes a somewhat ambivalent reading as this imaginary relationship allows Theodore deaden the pain of their "real" divorce. Put another way, the elusive dimension of new technologies, painless, always available, always immediately rewarding.

Source:  Juan Orellana Tecnoyciencia

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