Sunday, June 05, 2016

Movie review - "Her" (2013) ****

I was resistant seeing this because all the hipsters seemed to like it, and I have an instinctive aversion to cool group movies, and Spike Jonze is very much in the cool group, but it's lovely. Simple and lovely with Joaquin Phoenix falling in love with the voice of Scarlett Johanssen - both a very good. The characters in the film don't really judge Phoenix for what he does, and the twist is she falls for him more than he goes for her.

I did struggle to believe Phoenix's job - writing letters for people. Didn't feel like a real job felt like something people do in movies. Excellent support cast eg Chris Pratt, Amy Adams, Olivia Wilde.

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