Now and then, I take time to look back on my life, on how and why I have ended up here and there.

When I look back, I see pain, suffering, rejection, many mistakes, and inevitably many heartaches. Of course, I also see some good experiences, but I’ve noticed that it’s not what drove me where I am today. My most painful ‘adventures’ are the ones that pushed me out of my comfort zone and represented my greatest challenges. I have always thought that success was achieved through pain and suffering. I have understood, recently, that, in order to pursue and attain self-achievement, success and to love oneself, you need to find the right balance between adversity and encouragement; happiness is a subtle mix between struggling by yourself and having a comforting support. I understand now. I wasn’t actually rejected from good stuff in the past, I was actually redirected to be exactly where I am suppose to be right now, which is even better.

How did I get to this mental epiphany ? well, it comes down to one simple sentence “and then I met you”.

To A. you are my best ‘meeting’, thank you for being here, for being you, and for your unconditional support.

This movie raises the essential issue regarding the relationship between humanity and artificial intelligence. As a matter of fact, it is rather disturbing, because, even if the thematic is futuristic, the issue, in itself, is totally up to date. What room is left to “nature” in a world where, thanks to innovation, everything becomes possible ? What status has human life in such context ? is it superior because it came first or is it just different ?And yet, even if, Spike Jonze insists on bioethics and inherent problems associated with technical progress; even if he let me puzzled, he reminded me what means to be a human being. There are dialogues that shot me straight to the heart, because they gather so much sensitivity, and put simple words on indefinitely human feelings, such as loneliness, and feeling empty. Vertiginous passages guaranteed. I constantly went back and forth between self-identification and creating barriers with the characters. That’s what makes this movie so innovative: its complexity resides in the reflection of our own image. Since some passages are abundant of humanity they made me able to recognize myself and it’s nice to feel “understood”. However, the ones that address the issue of artificial intelligence are somewhat frightening.

Spike Jonze found the perfect balance between tenderness and harshness, lightness and depth, relevance and close futuristic fiction. His movie let me moved and intrigued, by explicitly illustrating the irony of human feelings, raising a reflexion on solitude and perfectly illustrating the fact that loneliness is a timeless feeling that everyone is trying to fill, whatever the means.