Friday, January 9, 2015

Her

Joaquin Phoenix plays Theodore, a profoundly depressed man living in a near-future version of LA. He buys an operating system with true AI that takes on a female persona, voiced by Scarlett Johansson. They develop a relationship and he eventually falls in love with her. This is an incredible movie with Phoenix expertly portraying the sadness and loneliness of his character and the joys he experiences when the relationship blossoms. This is also a weird movie with some incredibly strange scenes. Theo's relationship is not seen as all that unusual and others have the same type with their own devices. Can't say enough about the performance from Phoenix - quite possibly the best acting I've ever seen. Just incredible. And the added bonus of Amy Adams, a top, top favorite of mine. This was far and away my favorite movie of 2013/14 and is easily in my top 10 all-time. 10/10.

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