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A Relationship Between Human And Operating System, And Their Journey Of Love

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Her is a story about a man falling in love with and operating system, and their journey of love. On the surface it is a love story, but, the film also traces a personal journey of Theodore in discovering himself and finding authenticity. It uses many filmmaking techniques to show that the protagonist loses his own identity and the connection with the world around him. Through a romantic relationship, the film shows his struggles to regain his own identity and signifies the importance of letting go of the beautiful memory that he so clings to. In the movie Her, Theodore works as a letter writer who composes letters for other people. He is going through a divorce with his ex-wife Catherine and unable to move forward with his life. He then installs a new operating system on his device that has an artificial intelligence to communicate and learn, who names herself Samantha. Soon, a romantic relationship develops between Theodore and Samantha. They go through many perplexities and tensions on the nature of a relationship between human and an operating system, but finally accept each other as who or what they are. However, Samantha is evolving and growing into a grander existence that she is not longer his own possession, which makes Theodore very upset. At the end, their relationship breaks and Samantha leaves Theodore. It appears that the relationship between Theodore and Samantha is a major theme throughout the film. They go through ups and downs in a relationship and finally

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