Cinematic Language and Themes in Spike Jonze’s ‘Her’
The movie ‘Her’ was subtitled as ‘A Spike Jonze Love Story’ across all promotions at the time of its release. Watching the movie, it isn’t difficult to conclude that this was probably a deliberate decision to indicate something to the audience: for all the hype about operating systems and ‘artificial consciousness’, this movie isn’t interested in the trials and tribulations of technology. It is unequivocally a movie about ‘connections’ — what makes them real, and often the la