Her

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.