’Her’ Is the Perfect Movie for Our Time
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Jan. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Stories of a dystopian future oftendepict one of two different forms of human slavery. The firstinvokes the fear of pain; the second points to the appeal ofpleasure.
“Her,” Spike Jonze’s terrific new film, depicts adystopia of pleasure, but in an original way, because it castsnew light on a phenomenon that is unique to our time:personalization. In the process, it manages to offer some freshinsights into romantic love as well.