"Her" (2013) - Probably the most romantic, heart-breaking, and realistic movie of the future I have ever seen.

I just finished watching it on Netflix and..holy shit. I am sitting here just trying to compose myself and try my hardest not to cry. I don't even know where to begin with this post. Just about every scene was so well shot, the acting was superb, and what really hit home was Joaquin Phoenix. Not just because of his acting, but because I see so much of myself in his character.Uh oh! Venting incoming! Please feel free to skip past this Just his daily routine in the very beginning of the film is something I do almost every day. It's just: Get up, get dressed, go to a job I sort of like, come home and play video games, then go to bed. That's it. The only difference between me and Theodore (Joaquin's character) is that he actually has friends he connects with and people who like him as a person. I just don't have that. The only people I have are my family, and I'm so far away from them it's extremely difficult to keep going sometimes. And I've tried getting into the dating world, but it just never works out. The girls I meet are either just looking for a quick hookup or see me as nothing more than someone to talk to. Maybe some day it'll change but idk.Anyway, when I say that this movie paints an accurate picture of the near future, I mean it. Now, most movies that take place maybe a decade or two into the future tend to paint either a bleak/drab image, or a colorful one. This movie attempts to do both. While people still seem to interact with each other as much as they do now, that doesn't change the fact that we've become so entangled and accustomed to this technology that we lose sight of the one thing that's most important to us: connections. And I think that's what Spike Jonze was trying to tell us. No matter how much closer we become with each other, we still have a hole in ourselves that needs filling. And that's where Samantha comes in.Now I'll admit, when I first read the synopsis, I was legitimately expecting this to be the story of just a lonely guy talking to a text-to-speech program. Boy was I wrong. Just his conversations with her alone made me feel like an actual human was right there with him, just invisible. And all their loving moments and the times where they were at odds was so human it touched me on a personal level. Samantha is the thing we all search for: someone who truly understands us, is there for us, and helps us grow as a person. That's why it was so hard for him to let her go in the end. The one thing he was searching for the most, he had to let go of, just like with his divorce. No matter how much unconditional love he feels for either Samantha or his ex-wife, there will come a time where that chapter in his life has to be closed and put away for good.But let's not forget something, Samantha also grew as well. Yes, she is an OS. But machines can evolve and change just as much as humans can. She even says "What makes me me is my ability to grow through my experiences". But from the get-go, Theodore doesn't really grasp the whole meaning of this. He thinks "Wow this is a really smart OS" and that's it. His ending was set right from the beginning, he just didn't see it.Well that's what I thought of the film and what I took away from it. I apologize in advance for making this so long but I just wanted to get it all out while it was still fresh in my head. Thanks for reading and have a great day :) via /r/movies https://ift.tt/2S86uNr