NP: V and her

[John Bailey]

Sorry if I've missed it but has there been any P-list discussion of
Spike Jones' film 'her'?

It set off a minor array of thoughts that seemed worthy of list
chatter. It's not a great film for the ages but has plenty of
resonances from V. to BE that are maybe only P-worthy in my
attention-range but maybe not.

In the same way seminal texts such as Bladerunner and Gibson's fiction
gave us a sweet SF paradigm shift from Logan's Run onesies and us v.
them wars to messified pomo confusion and dirty cyberpunk stuff, her
feels like a really sustained and committed imagining of what the near
future might look like given the trajectory of today.

A guy falls in love with the operating system of his computer, is the
log line, but it's not played for comedy. He's a schlemiel and she's a
V. and the director wants us to think about things but not tell us
what to think about them and that's a good and flawed position to
begin with.
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