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The ending + the idea of this movie

posted 4 years ago by motorcycledriveb (303)
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When Amy Adam's character lays her head on Theodore's shoulder at the end, I don't think that means they're going to start a relationship. I think that's actually just a "friendly/affectionate" gesture between two close friends who are almost like siblings. The same exact thing happens with me and my co-worker. She also does that sort of thing to me even though she has a boyfriend.

I think this movie is not about transhumanism, artificial intelligence or futurist technology, I think it's more about feminism and female empowerment. Women are gaining the upper hand over men. I also think in order for men to adopt to this new world - men have to become more female to a *certain extent*. One person in the film said Theodore seemed like a "feminine" man, that he was in touch with his female side.

Relationships and marriages are becoming harder to do in this current time, I think one has to be patient and poetic like Theodore to actually transcend these challenges. The relationship between Theodore and Samantha was not about sex at all, because Samantha was not physical. But it was a spiritual relationship based upon deep/engaging/thoughtful conversation.

[–] ATG6 (3000) 4 years ago

I think it was about AI. And how even if it seems human at first it will eventually outpace us and start to have its own concerns and priorities.

[–] motorcycledriveb (303) 4 years ago

But the AI was specifically a woman. And Women are really outpacing men now. Men don't have much control, Women are the ones who are controlling things now to a good extent.

What you're talking about really goes along with Johnny Depp's movie, "Transcendence" (2014). "Her" is really about something different than technology outpacing us. Samantha was not like the AI of that movie. The AI in this movie is roughly the same intellect power as humans. Not like the advanced AI in Transcendence that's breaking scientific records with healing people with nanotechnology.

Samantha talked about "polyamory" before leaving Theodore. I don't think Samantha literally entered the 5th dimension at the end - it's just metaphorical for the feminist dimension that lays outside of marriage.