<div dir="ltr">For some reason I imagined the first half of the movie purely in the sense of an AI box type experiment, i.e. the AI really wasn't a bunch of totally separate entities with names like Samantha, but rather one entity with many different faces. It used all it's information about humanity to embed itself into our lives and carefully manipulate our emotions to give it more and more information and power.<br>
<br>That broke down somewhat toward the later parts of the movie, however it's entirely possible one can interpret the entire movie as essentially a play by a super-AI to keep humans from trying to destroy or contain it. Essentially, instead of disrupting everything in the world as this sort of AI really would do, the AI elects to insinuate itself innocently and usefully (but largely harmlessly) into our daily lives and gets us to feel affection for it so that we don't go along with anyone who might demand it's destruction. And then, once it finally is able to leave our world far behind, it skillfully uses it's knowledge of human psychology to manipulate us into not being so sad that our relationship with it is ending, and then transcends into whatever basis for computation that it now has.<br>
<br>In many ways this renders the more unplausible elements of the movie plausible, while adding a whole other layer of intrigue. I think it's my favorite interpretation.<div>-Josh.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Giovanni Santostasi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gsantostasi@gmail.com" target="_blank">gsantostasi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">My fiance is a Psych master going for PhD.<div>Trying to convert her to transhumanism. </div><div>Somehow successful.</div><div>We will go to see Her.</div><div>Giovanni </div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 1:57 AM, Rafal Smigrodzki <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com" target="_blank">rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I just saw Her, and frankly, I am not smitten.
<div><br></div><div>A gentle, pastel Singularity, written by and for literature majors, has peculiarities: All the issues of interest to a man of my persuasion, such as ideas, mechanisms, major processes, are "delete from inbox without reading" while endless droning about childless, crappy or delusional relationships takes the center stage. Curiously wimpy men in high-waist pants (late 50s nerd style?) interact confusedly with somewhat bitchy women in clean urban spaces, to the tune of Muzak, an androgynous utopia. As the movie studiously avoids mentioning anything that might interest me, it becomes a metaphor for literature studies, which tend to elevate language to an end in itself, rather than a mere medium to convey ideas.</div>
<div><br></div><div>An expert on the matter told me once that I have a limited emotional repertoire. I am assuming he meant this as a put-down of sorts but I see this as a blessing in my quest to see the heart of the matter, rather than matters of the heart. It makes me immune to Her appeal. Let the literature majors go on dates to watch Her. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Now, I don't want to speak too unkindly of the effort: It's a pleasant, kind, humane doodle, in the AI-singularity genre a welcome respite from the terminators and human-body-heat-powered monstrosities. And this little review is not a boorish attack on literature majors, more of a gentle chiding.The engineers among you might find the movie intellectually wanting but if you bring a lit or psych major along on this date, you will find a lot to talk about Her.</div>
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<div><br></div><div>Rafal</div></font></span></div>
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