HER-Is About Us and is a Must!

HER is the film in which Ted (Joaquin Phoenix) falls in love with his computer, Samantha, voiced by Scarlett Johanson.  (Can a voice receive an Oscar nomination? Because she deserves it.)  Phoenix's performance is exceptional.  He deserves an Oscar and is arguably our finest American actor.  The movie is set in LA in the not too distant future.  This is a credible future from where we are today.  Ted is a professional letter writer.  He writes other's personal letters to their loved ones.  Letter writing and printed books have become archaic.  Everywhere you look today, everyone is looking/talking into their cells and real contact is becoming obsolete.  By real, I mean eye contact, touch, conversation and human emotions.  The word lonely is used repetitively in HER, a film of melancholy isolation.  Ted is emotionally stifled by a failed marriage.  He spends his evenings alone playing (really cool) interactive video games.  He purchases the new OS (operational system) a programmed voice designed to respond & provide companionship to its owner.  Ted falls in love with Samantha; a virtual being.  Samantha too breaks his heart but not before Ted has learned to feel joy, and love again.  This is the wakeup & smell the coffee of today.  Hokey?  Absolutely not, it is a must see movie to experience.