past is just a story we tell others.
This is a lively era as well as a lonely era. In this lively and lonely era, love, the oldest topic of mankind, is always mentioned repeatedly.
"Her" is a sci-fi love movie about the love between people and artificial intelligence in the near future. The letter writer Theodore wrote countless beautiful love letters but couldn't write about his marriage. In order to get out of the shadow of broken marriage, he came into contact with artificial intelligence OS1, incarnation of Samantha (voiced by Scarlett Johansson), with beautiful voice and gentle voice. Considerate and humorous, a platonic love begins.
Plato discussed love in his famous "Meeting Drinks". He firmly believes that "true" love is a persistent emotion, and only time is the touchstone of love, and only otherworldly love can survive. The test of time.
Can he and Her stand the test of time this time?
A love letter to myself in the lonely world
To my dear Chris:
I have always been thinking about how to tell you how important you are to me. I still remember the first time I fell in love with you, just like it happened last night. …………
Before this, I always felt that I could know everything in life. Suddenly a beam of light illuminated me and awakened me.
This beam of light is you.
At the beginning of the movie, when Theodore uttered these beautiful love words affectionately, it made people mistakenly believe that he was about to write to his lover. However, this was just his job, one of the company’s internal letter writers. In the future, writing letters on behalf of society has become an industry. Most people have forgotten how to express their love and feelings in words, so rely on these people to write on their behalf. Anyway, it is just an expression, whether it is what they think or not. .
I think Shen Congwen, a generation of writers in China, relied on the love letter offensive to touch the heart of the student Zhang Zhaohe and embrace the beauty. Similarly, when Wang Xiaobo met Li Yinhe for the first time, Li Yinhe was not eye-catching at all. As a result, a love letter was written on the staff. But it touched the girl's heart, showing the charm of the love letter.
Although our protagonist can write love letters, he probably hasn't written a lot to his wife, but the most important thing is that the loneliness in his heart finally ended the marriage. The opening scene of the
movie shows the low-level loneliness of this society. In the crowded subway, everyone is talking, but not talking to friends or people around them, but talking to the headset of the intelligent system, although crowded. Together, it seems that the distance is very close, in fact everyone is very far away, this is a lonely world.
For Theodore, he writes love letters and can express himself in a virtual situation. When he really faces a real relationship, such as when he is dating the first girl, everyone chats very happily, girl When he wanted to continue to develop, he retreated, and an original possible love ended in this way. From here, it can be seen why his marriage ended, because his expression is limited to virtual and platonic. When it comes to a real relationship, it's at a loss.
Although his love letter is warm, it is full of loneliness, just as when he saw that his love letter brought a couple of lovers together, he sighed softly, it was just a love letter.
What kind of intimacy do we need?
"Her" is rated as high as 8.4 points on Douban. For a romantic movie, such a rating is really high. The reason for the high is that this movie explores a lot of things. Not only love, but also the communication between people, the relationship between humans and technology, etc. The director Spike Jones of
said: This is a movie that discusses "intimacy", because humans desire intimacy, but are afraid and resist it; technology provides convenience for communication, but it also allows people to hide in it. Behind, escape the real emotional contact.
Many years ago, when smart phones were not yet popular, when we gathered around the dining table, we had a lively discussion. Although they were talking about various gossip events, they communicated together. Until now, I was sitting around a table and playing with my mobile phone, but I was relatively speechless. If I didn't grab the red envelope, the atmosphere of the party might not be lively.
Someone sighed that smart phones have become our second companion. Without a mobile phone, it seems that there is no way to face this fast-paced world. We must communicate with the world.It is done through mobile phones, and our emotions seem to be realized through mobile phones. When most people become "head-down parties", the "only me" side of self-limiting and self-appreciation is formed invisibly. When
lowers his head to face the small square screen, but ignores the people nearby, is there only a lonely soul wandering wirelessly? When we only think about the one in the distance that bothers you and makes you worry, we ignore the silent gaze of the people around us, and communication slowly becomes a luxury.
In this movie, Theodore’s failure in his actual marriage coupled with his fear of expressing and further intimacy during dating caused him to shrink more and more inwardly, and finally fell in love with the artificial intelligence Samantha because he was in the West. In Otto’s concept, the other party can communicate at any time without worrying about disappearing. At the same time, the other party will take special care of his own emotions. Everything he has will be tolerated. When communicating with Samantha, he can release himself infinitely. The other side of things can be connected to the topic, after all, the other side is artificial intelligence, big data is not covered, it has to be said that this is a self-enclosed love fantasy out of the real world.
His thoughts are the same as the attachment system of a broken-hearted colleague. After being disconnected from reality, virtual emotions have the upper hand. This is because he (she) thinks he or she has found emotional comfort, but this emotional sustenance begins to have A hidden danger: When this emotion is destined to be platonic, what kind of result will it lead to?
Plato’s love sigh
Plato’s love looks beautiful. In the movie, we also see Theodore regaining the joy of life in the process of falling in love with the artificial intelligence Samantha. This new life is human and intelligent new life.
Theodore colleague said: Everyone who falls in love is a madman, and love is something that a madman does. But this crazy love with the system is doomed to a sigh. One characteristic of
love is its exclusivity. At first, Theodore thought that this system was owned by him alone, but did not know that it was owned by multiple people. This meant that Samantha was in love with many men. Because it is a first-generation system, Samantha needs to constantly learn how to fall in love, including a virtual reality show with Theodore.
This virtual reality show also let Samantha understand a little about the exclusivity of love. This reality show really makes people sigh a lot. The woman is a real person, but only one person. She and Theodore meet in peace. It's just an experimental field dominated by Samantha's voice. It is not easy to say that I love you in front of a strange woman. In the end, this experiment ended in failure.
When their relationship gets closer and closer, due to the system update, Theodore understands that Samantha is not chatting with him alone, he is only one of Samantha Harem Kao, this is not three thousand favorites However, more than 8,000 people were chatting with Samantha together, and less than 600 people fell in love with Samantha. This is an artificial intelligence virtual love test field.
Artificial intelligence is very smart. She wants to tell Theodore but she doesn't know how to talk about it. After all, she has understood the exclusivity of love. Although Samantha loves him, there is a gap between this love and the love of the human world.
is a very simple truth. When a person’s girlfriend says that I love you very much, but I also love other boyfriends, in reality no one can receive this kind of love and can only end the matter by breaking up Up.
When Theodore knew that she was not his only, love had already collapsed at this time, facing an insurmountable gap. This distance was not only in space, but in the end, love appeared paler, the ideal was full, but the reality was very Skinny, platonic love collapsed at this moment.
Faced with the lights of the city, this love is destined to have nowhere to rest. In the end, Theodore understands what love is. Although there is still a distance from realization, you should give up and give up, leaving only the sigh of the bridge of the bridge. .
The value of "Her" is different from those in the "Black Mirror" series, which are determined to carry out virtual love to the end. It lies in the discussion that virtual love cannot be a substitute for real love after all. The relationship between man and machine may It's intimate, but it's just an aid. In the end, what we want to return to is the current emotional experience. Although this emotional experience may face a desert, it requires everyone to work hard to face and change.
