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Her spike jonze new york times review9/24/2023 Most significantly, the characters seem fully prepared for the change in romantic dynamics signified by the protagonist’s lunge into cyber-love. The film is set in LA, but, to heighten the alienation, many of the urban exteriors were shot in Singapore. The computer hardware dabbles in the sort of mild retro-chic – smart-phones look a little like 1950s cigarette cases – that we fully expect from Apple's successors. Theodore works for a company that composes intimate letters for those unable to express themselves effectively. This is not the full-on, existential wonderland of Being John Malkovich. Jonze's wisest move was to position the film's universe at a gentle angle to our own. Theodore’s mate Amy (Amy Adams) soon announces that her own interface has become a bosom chum. Making good use of his diagonal smile and worried brow, Phoenix plays Theodore Twombly, a lonely man who falls in love with the voice on his computer’s operating system. However, for all its clever-clever shapes, Her exhibits real emotional traction from odd beginning to melancholy ending. The strong score is by Arcade Fire, for Pete's sake. Joaquin Phoenix and fellow actors cope admirably with costumes (absurdly high-waist pants, mustard boots) that appear to pastiche the daywear of Williamsburg cheese salesman. The director has employed Hoyte van Hoytema, the hot Dutch cinematographer who created cold images for Let the Right One In, to spread his smoky, over-rinsed glaze across an alienating urban landscape. ![]() ![]() Her, Jonze's extraordinary speculative romance, certainly has the look of a dispatch from Hipster Central. Maybe Jonze without Charlie Kaufman – hitherto his regular writer – would forever be as unappealing as Wise without Morecambe. Spike Jonze's last film, the suffocatingly self-indulgent Where the Wild Things Are, gave us some cause for concern.
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