“From John Henry to John Connor, man is typically on the opposite side of machine. But, what if man and machine could not just live in harmony but actually love one another?”
“Wha… Are you asking me?”
“No, I”m asking Siri,” Eric said. “Siri, ‘What if?’”
“That’s a beer can, not an iPhone.”
“Shut up, Rob. They didn’t have to know that.”
“Well, I guess I’ll answer. Your first thought is, ‘Of course not.’ The idea of someone trying to fall in love with Siri seems like a silly concept, until you realize where director Spike Jonze is going to take it.”
“Her is a story of near-future man/tech love, but it’s not what you might expect given that premise,” Eric said, looking especially handsome and definitely not talking to a half-finished can of Lone Star. “This isn’t a Wall-E future showing modern man’s disconnect with nature or a bleak post-apocalyptic world where self-aware machines have all but eradicated mankind a la The Matrix or Terminator — though, for fun, you can pretend Her is an origin story for Skynet.”
“All of human history is an origin story for Skynet. Her is a commentary on modern relationships,” Rob said. “How much do they depend on authentic human emotion? Is it possible to have a real, intimate, emotional connection with someone who isn’t a real person?”
“But, this isn’t a one-way human/robot love in the sense of Jude Law in A.I. or some creepy guy who buys a sex robot,” Eric said, regretting that “sex robot” was now going to be in his Internet history. “No, this is real reciprocal human love with a big ‘L’ between a man and something man-made. It’s not just a man that learns to love his operation system; it’s an operating system who learns to love a man.”
(Rambling derelicts, Arrested Development, ScarJo and more after the jump.)
“Wha… Are you asking me?”
“No, I”m asking Siri,” Eric said. “Siri, ‘What if?’”
“That’s a beer can, not an iPhone.”
“Shut up, Rob. They didn’t have to know that.”
“Well, I guess I’ll answer. Your first thought is, ‘Of course not.’ The idea of someone trying to fall in love with Siri seems like a silly concept, until you realize where director Spike Jonze is going to take it.”
“Her is a story of near-future man/tech love, but it’s not what you might expect given that premise,” Eric said, looking especially handsome and definitely not talking to a half-finished can of Lone Star. “This isn’t a Wall-E future showing modern man’s disconnect with nature or a bleak post-apocalyptic world where self-aware machines have all but eradicated mankind a la The Matrix or Terminator — though, for fun, you can pretend Her is an origin story for Skynet.”
“All of human history is an origin story for Skynet. Her is a commentary on modern relationships,” Rob said. “How much do they depend on authentic human emotion? Is it possible to have a real, intimate, emotional connection with someone who isn’t a real person?”
“But, this isn’t a one-way human/robot love in the sense of Jude Law in A.I. or some creepy guy who buys a sex robot,” Eric said, regretting that “sex robot” was now going to be in his Internet history. “No, this is real reciprocal human love with a big ‘L’ between a man and something man-made. It’s not just a man that learns to love his operation system; it’s an operating system who learns to love a man.”
(Rambling derelicts, Arrested Development, ScarJo and more after the jump.)
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