{"id":38946,"date":"2014-06-27T14:17:32","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T18:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=38946"},"modified":"2023-02-19T14:20:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T19:20:28","slug":"her-2013-blu-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/27\/her-2013-blu-ray\/","title":{"rendered":"Her (2013) [Blu-Ray]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The gap between what\u2019s just a machine and what\u2019s a genuine human experience is gradually shifting and closing. Every year technology is evolving to where it\u2019s almost sentient, and while technology needs human input to process and obtain information, how long will it be before it can simply drop in to the internet and form its own thought patterns and make its own decisions? \u201cHer\u201d is an exploration of that mind set, except it examines the relationship between human and technology as something of a spiritual and very loving symbiosis. It\u2019s not so much a cautionary tale, but a fantasy about what is living reality and what\u2019s merely experiencing programming and binary.<\/p>\n

Spike Jonze examines the relationship between human and technology that\u2019s bold, brilliant, and often times heart breaking. While the relationship and dynamic between lovelorn Theodore and program Samantha is ideal, where does the line of free will and mere demands from the owner of Samantha begins and ends? Samantha is one of the many experimental operating systems given to Theodore. Samantha is an operating system that can not only help Theodore with his tasks, but provide a personality and even nearly genuine experience with a human being.<\/p>\n

Theodore eventually imbues her with the qualities of the woman he\u2019s always wanted, but that eventually begins to conflict with Samantha\u2019s own functions. When we\u2019ve created our ideal mate, who\u2019s to say they\u2019ll always be ours and only ours? \u201cHer\u201d works like a genuine romance that bypasses any normal conventions, giving Theodore control of Samantha, while also enjoying her genuine humility and magnetism, as he would a girlfriend. Scarlett Johannson is fantastic as Samantha, whose flinty rasp of a voice lends a down to Earth charm to Samantha that makes her appealing on almost any level to a man. \u201cHer\u201d successfully evokes interesting ideas about the gradual growing intimacy of technology and man, and how everything on Earth is finite. Even the bonds we create.<\/p>\n

Featured on the Blu-Ray for \u201cHer\u201d is the twenty four minute segment \u201cThe Untitled Rick Howard Project,\u201d a behind the scenes documentary that thinks outside the box from the typical BTS featurettes. Director Lance Bangs really takes an artful approach to the art house production, and deciding against the conventional means of exploring Jonzes\u2019 production. \u201cHer: Love in the Modern Age\u201d is a fifteen minute featurette by Bangs, who interviews a series of writers, and commentators on the ideas and turbulence of love, and technology in the modern age. Finally, \u201cHow Do You Share Your Love with Somebody?\u201d is a four minute montage of the film\u2019s scenes, as well as behind the scenes snippets, and snippets of conversations between Theodore and Sam.<\/p>\n