We love the Oscars, so each year Stephanie and I watch every movie nominated for Best Picture. This year is especially exciting because there are two sci-fi movies on the list, and they aren't run and gun Starship Troopers movies. Her, and Gravity are the best kind of science fiction, the type that introduce an interesting premise while asking very serious questions about the future of civilization. Her is about falling in love with a true AI, the initial prejudices leveled by society, and what happens when an extreme introvert enters the brand new romantic frontier.
This movie blew me away. I've always been a fan of Joaquin Phoenix (mostly because he made the only movie about a musician's rise and fall that was watchable) and I was shocked by how deeply I related to his character Theodore in this film. It's not just that he's a stay at home guy who plays a lot of video games, but because his desire for physical relationships was crushed by a bad experience only to be completely swept off of his feet by a personality that suits him perfectly. This movie is an amazing exploration of love, what we define it as, and also the coming AI singularity, an event that all of us sci-fi nerds have been terrified of for decades.
Go watch it.
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