Design
How Mass Transit Helps Convey the Future in 'Her'
The film may be set in L.A., but cars take a back seat.
It’s true that, since the recession at least, we’re driving less, and that younger Americans are actively seeking to avoid driving at all. Yet cars are still the way the vast majority of our country gets around.
So it’s jarring to notice that in filmmaker Spike Jonze’s vision of our not-so-distant urban future, the critically acclaimed Her, cars are relegated to tiny, ant-like dots on distant overpasses.