![]() Before long, Theodore is introducing her as his girlfriend. Over time, Samantha grows and learns, encountering selfhood, discovering her own wants, maturing at warp speed. Hers is the last voice he hears at night and the first he hears in the morning she watches him as he sleeps. He carries the latter around in his shirt pocket so that Samantha’s camera-eye can peek out at the wide world. Samantha is in Theodore’s earpiece, in his handheld. The love story that gradually unfolds is no less touching for its unorthodox structure. Samantha is, after all, voiced (brilliantly) by Scarlett Johansson. Theodore powers her up on his computer and at the first sound of her lively purr we can see that he is lost. For Samantha-she chooses the name herself-is also known as OS1, the first artificially intelligent operating system. Or, to be more accurate, he purchases her. “Play a melancholy song,” he commands his ever-present handheld device-and when the chosen melody does not suit, “play a different melancholy song.” Recently divorced, tingling with loneliness, he grasps furtively for connection through phone sex and videogames. Just like our parents, and our parents’ parents.”Ĭlosed off and insecure in his personal life, Theodore pours his romantic self into these letters, loving vicariously as an intermediary for others. (However beautiful, the letters are not handwritten, nor even hand-typed, as keyboards have been banished from this particular future.) “Lying naked beside you in that apartment,” Theodore dictates, “it suddenly hit me that I was a part of this whole larger thing. ![]() ![]() As he speaks to his computer, words appear on the screen. As the film opens, he has been commissioned to write a love letter from a wife to her husband of 50 years. Joaquin Phoenix stars as Theodore Twombly, a former LA Weekly writer who now works for a firm called.
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