Boldly original, strikingly conceived, and flawlessly
executed, writer/director Spike Jonze has crafted an elegant romantic drama for
our current technology obsessed times.
This is a deeply layered, incredibly soulful film, one that explores the
fundamental idea of love and what it means to humans on both an emotional and psychological
level, while also discussing what it might mean to a piece of artificial
intelligence. Joaquin Phoenix is
wonderful in a lead performance that couldn’t be any more different from his
ghoulish, serpentine work in last year’s The
Master, and using only her amazingly intoxicating voice, Scarlett Johansson
does tremendous work as the eternal and unseen object of desire. Repeated viewings will likely reap
multiple, previously undiscovered rewards.
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