Her avoids tackling the ethics of human-AI romance head on, and misses a chance to really say something about our conception of love.
THERE’S a scene early on in Spike Jonze’s new movie, Her, wherein Samantha, a disembodied, intuitive operating system, reveals to her owner, Theodore, that she has read his entire e-mail archive. She tells him she knows about his impending divorce, and gently asks him when he’ll be ready to date again.
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