Saturday, 29 August 2020

Her (2013 Spike Jonze & scr)

A multi-layered, Oscar winning screenplay, about the dangers of technology and the efforts of human beings to connect. Joaquin Phoenix isn't the only one to fall for his operating system (beautifully played by Scarlett Johannson) - Amy Adams does too. (It turns out the computer's having relationships with 600 other people!) And, on the theme of connections, his job is to write letters for other people. Highly prescient (everybody's on their phone the whole time) and funny. Perhaps goes on a bit too long.

With Rooney Mara, Olivia Wilde. Photographed by Hoyte Van Hoytema.

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