Love on an IPhone, Actually
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Dec. 23 (Bloomberg) -- If the critically acclaimed movie“Her” doesn’t signal the end of civilization, it surely marksa pivotal moment in its decline. “Her” strives to take what isa scourge of our time and elevate it to a blessing. Isn’t itenough that most people I know already give precedence to thething in their hands over the person in front of them, thatcommuning with an inanimate object trumps the living much of thetime?
Director Spike Jonze makes your shiny smartphone even moreseductive. Gone is the mechanical chirp of Apple’s Siri. In itsplace is Scarlett Johansson, with a voice that could melt iceand set the world afire. Even disembodied, she should be up foran Oscar.