Okay, with the commotion of the 86th Academy Awards gone, we can look at some of the films that were part of the celebration. Just moments before the event, me and Jéssica could watch two fine motion pictures: Her and 12 Years a Slave. Let's look at them, one at a time.
Her is a truly innovative concept for a film. A very nice experience, all in all. It received an Oscar for Best Writing - Original Screenplay. No wonder. A unique story with little touches of other romantic concepts, but proposing something post-modern and akin to our reality. Spike Jonze proposes a future world in which the protagonist Theodore (played by the talented Joaquin Phoenix), a letter composer - job unique to the film -, finds himself trapped in the mourning of a previous relationship that didn't quite work out. After buying his copy of a brand new OS that has its own Artificial Intelligence like none before seen, he starts interacting with it; well, with her. The OS's name is Samantha, and after some icebreaker conversations, both of them get more and more connected, until Theodore finds himself in love with the AI of his system. The intricacies of love, possession, companionship, issues of body, identity and representations of human personalities are excellent and like no other that I've seen. The character construction in the film is very realistic, each one with highly believable love dilemmas and conflicts. The ending is not so impressive, but it's always goo to acknowledge a well-written piece of screenplay. Well done.
Director: Spike Jonze.
Score
Cinematography: 8.5
Acting: 8.5
Editing: 9.0
Sound: 8.0
Text: 9.0
Concept: 9.5
Premise Execution: 8.5
Average Score: 8.7
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