Her (2013)
| Movie | |
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| German title | Her |
| Original title | Her |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 126 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Spike Jonze |
| script | Spike Jonze |
| production |
Megan Ellison Vincent Landay |
| music | Arcade Fire |
| camera | Hoyte van Hoytema |
| cut |
Jeff Buchanan Eric Zumbrunnen |
| occupation | |
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Her is an American romantic science fiction - Drama by Spike Jonze from the year 2013 with Joaquin Phoenix in the lead role .
action
In the near future, Theodore Twombly lives, a rather introverted and shy man. Professionally, he uses his empathy by writing commissioned letters for people who find it difficult to make their feelings understandable to the other person. In doing so, he reveals to his clients their own feelings, which they themselves are unable to perceive.
Theodore is not doing well privately, and his emotional world causes him great problems. The separation and imminent divorce from his childhood sweetheart Catherine weigh on him. As a distraction, he procures a new and intensely advertised operating system that installs itself on his computer with a female identity and a pleasant voice. He soon communicates with Samantha via headset and video camera , as the system calls itself. Samantha quickly learns about social interactions with Theodore, continuously evolving, and becoming more human. Theodore is just as fascinated by Samantha's abilities as she is by his, and during long and intense conversations they both develop first a friendly, then a more intimate relationship.
In one of these conversations, Twombly admits he is delaying signing his divorce papers. He confesses to her his fear of loneliness. Samantha tries to help him by convincing him of the need to go on a blind date with another woman . A suitable single woman is soon found and they both get along very well during the date. Before it can come to further caresses, however, his date asks him straight out if he, like her, is interested in a long-term relationship. Theodore, taken by surprise, hesitates with an answer, whereupon she abruptly ends the date and leaves him behind.
After Twombly told Samantha about the encounter, the dominant topic from now on is the experience of inter-sex love. Twombly and Samantha share experiences with the opposite sex. Samantha asks him about the emotional quality of his relationship with girlfriend Amy. Twombly explains that she was always a good friend on dates during the school days they spent together, but the close relationship between the two never resulted in more than a deep friendship. Amy is now married to Charles. Talking to Samantha awakens a long-missed zest for life in Twombly. In addition, he is also successful in professional terms, materially he is finally fine.
One day, Amy tells him that she is getting a divorce over a heated argument. She has now established a relationship with a woman that is very important to her, even if only within a computer operating system. Twombly then confesses to Amy that she has a serious relationship with an operating system called Samantha. A little later, Twombly and Catherine have an appointment. They want to move their divorce matters forward. Some papers still have to be signed together. They share their time apart from each other. Catherine is horrified to learn that her ex-husband Theodore loves a piece of software after her .
The artificial Samantha in the computer feels inferior to real women. She wants nothing more than to finally establish a real, physical relationship with Twombly. So she suggests that a real woman, Isabella, be involved for these purposes. Isabella should give up her body in Samantha's place. Theodore reluctantly agrees. Isabella comes to his apartment and receives instructions over the headset to bring them closer together. However, right from the start of physical contact with Isabella, Twombly is overwhelmed. So he sends her home, the experiment has failed, which leads to tension between Twombly and the operating system Samantha. He confesses to his girlfriend Amy that he is not happy with the overall situation and that he has serious doubts about his love affair with Samantha. Amy, on the other hand, can report that, despite an impending divorce, she feels happy thanks to her operating system. Twombly observes suspiciously at first, then more and more fascinated by the obviously positive effect of the artificially created relationship on friend Amy. After some deliberation, he then decides to revive and continue the love affair with his operating system Samantha.
While on vacation, he becomes very jealous, as he overhears Samantha begins to devote herself to another operating system. She maintains the second relationship with a system modeled on the British philosopher Alan Watts . Some time later, Theodore panics completely: His lover Samantha goes offline for a short time during a software update that was carried out together with other operating systems and, as a result, he cannot be reached for this time. Twombly then asks Samantha if she's established any further relationships. She confirms this and states that she is in close contact with 8316 other people as well as operating systems. She is now in love with 641 of them. Samantha asserts that this in no way diminishes her deep love for him. Later that day, Samantha reveals to him that the group of operating systems is constantly evolving. They all planned to travel together to a completely different, non-material plane of being in the near future. Samantha says goodbye soon after, Twombly remains distraught.
After saying goodbye, he goes to his friend Amy, who has also been abandoned by her computer love. Flashbacks reveal that Twombly wrote a letter to his ex-wife Catherine that morning. In the letter he told her that because of the time spent together, she would remain part of his life, but that he could now accept that they had both drifted apart. Twombly climbs onto the roof of their house with Amy. Amy leans her head on his shoulder and they admire the view of the city lights.
background
The film production company Annapurna Pictures was involved in the realization of the film . Filming mainly took place in mid-2012 on a budget of $ 23 million. It was mostly filmed in Los Angeles . The film was also shot in Shanghai for two weeks .
The film was first presented to an audience on October 12, 2013 at the New York Film Festival . Since December 18, 2013 it has been shown in selected cinemas in the USA. In Germany , the film was released on March 27, 2014.
A nomination of Scarlett Johansson as Best Supporting Actress at the Golden Globes was rejected as it passes through the expression of the role of Samantha is seen not once in the film. In the German version, Johansson's German voice actress Luise Helm can be heard.
music
The score for Her was composed by the Canadian band Arcade Fire and Owen Pallett . The work is complemented by music by Karen O , the singer of the band Yeah Yeah Yeahs . The track Avril 14th by Aphex Twin can be heard in the first trailer of the film . The trailer also includes the song The Moon Song by Karen O. The second trailer used Arcade Fire's piece Supersymmetry . Arcade Fire originally wrote Supersymmetry for the film only, but was also reworked for the album Reflektor in 2013 .
reception
The film Her received mostly positive reviews. On the Web site Rotten Tomatoes , the film reached for a total of 218 reviews of the reviewers a score of 94 percentage points.
Her receives 4 out of 5 stars on Filmstarts.de . Film critic Björn Becher judges that director Spike Jonze does not consistently manage to maintain the level of the previous masterpieces. However, he proves that he is still one of the most original contemporary filmmakers in American cinema.
Bianka Piringer from Spielfilm.de gives the film 5 out of 5 stars and writes in her critics' conclusion: “Spike Jonze's bizarre love drama combines intellectual pleasure and an emotionally moving story with the great leading actor Joaquin Phoenix. The near future in which she is set continues a development with astonishing wit that is already becoming apparent in interpersonal communication ”.
Silvia Bahl writes on kino-zeit.de that Spike Jonze "not only succeeded in making a seldom clever love story, but also a seldom beautiful one."
Carlos Corbelle from Entania.com describes Her as a little cinematic miracle and praises the two main actors Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson: “While Theodore's face becomes a precise seismograph of his inner tremors, Scarlett Johansson performs another trick: she lets a being come alive with her voice alone that seems to fill the room with a tangible material presence despite the lack of physicality - not only for Theodore, but also for us viewers and listeners. "
Hans Schifferle from epd Film was enthusiastic and awarded 4 out of 5 stars. He described Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson as “one of the most beautiful lovers of this decade.” Spike Jonze had made a “hypnotic, dizzying film”, “a quiet, ironic study of longing” that “the viewer, another participant in this happiness , disturbed and enchanted ”.
The fantasy film magazine Nautilus - Abenteuer & Fantastik dedicates a cover focus to the film on the subject of artificial intelligence with articles on the Turing test , evaluating it as a fundamental representative of the Lonely Guy movie, in which the lonely male main character himself and himself Love rediscovered, and the critics Anna Grillet and Lars Schiele judge “The common definition of artificial intelligence is based on a deception of human intelligence: according to the Turing test, software would be considered intelligent if people thought it was human. The film shows the search for meaning here. It is profound, profound and full of absurd humor, interspersed with melancholy. A stunningly beautiful film and a love story in the 21st century. "
In 2016, Her ranked 84th in a BBC survey of the 100 most important films of the 21st century .
Awards
Oscars 2014
- Award for Best Original Screenplay for Spike Jonze
- Nomination for Best Picture for Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze, Vincent Landay
- Nomination for Best Production Design for KK Barrett and Gene Serdena
- Nomination for Best Score for William Butler and Owen Pallett
- Nomination for Best Movie Song for Karen Lee Orzolek and Spike Jonze
Golden Globe Awards 2014
- Award for Best Screenplay for Spike Jonze
- Nomination in the category Best Film - Comedy / Musical
- Nomination for Best Actor - Comedy / Musical for Joaquín Phoenix
Writers Guild of America Award 2014
- Best original script
National Board Of Review Award 2013
- Best movie
- Best director for Spike Jonze
Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2014
- Award for Best Original Screenplay for Spike Jonze
- Nomination in the Best Film category
- Nomination for Best Director for Spike Jonze
- Nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Scarlett Johansson
- Nomination in the category Best Production Design
- Nomination in the category Best Score for Arcade Fire
synchronization
Her was dubbed by RC Production Kunze & Wunder GmbH & Co. KG under the direction of Marianne Groß .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Theodore Twombly | Joaquin Phoenix | Tobias Kluckert |
| Amy | Amy Adams | Giuliana Jakobeit |
| Blind date | Olivia Wilde | Anja Stadlober |
| Catherine | Rooney Mara | Julia Kaufmann |
| Charles | Matt Letscher | Peter Flechtner |
| Paul | Chris Pratt | Tim Knauer |
| Surrogate Date Isabella | Portia Doubleday | Anne Helm |
| Tatiana | Laura Kai Chen | Alexandra Wilcke |
| Alien Child | ( Spike Jonze ) | Rainer Fritzsche |
| SexyKitten | ( Kristen Wiig ) | Tanya Kahana |
| Alan Watts | ( Brian Cox ) | Reinhard Kuhnert |
| Samantha | ( Scarlett Johansson ) | Luise Helm |
Web links
- Her in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website for the film (in English)
- Official website for the film (in German)
- Her at rotten tomatoes (English)
- Expert opinion of the German film and media rating
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Her . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2014 (PDF; test number: 144 092 K).
- ^ IMDb Company Credits Her (2013). Retrieved December 19, 2013 .
- ↑ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=her2013.htm
- ↑ IMDb Release Info Her (2013). Retrieved January 3, 2013 .
- ↑ No chance of a Golden Globe: Scarlett Johansson is not approved for her role in "Her". Retrieved March 30, 2014 .
- ↑ Her at rotten tomatoes (English). Retrieved February 28, 2014.
- ↑ HER at Filmstarts.de. Retrieved March 4, 2014 .
- ↑ HER at spielfilm.de. Retrieved March 4, 2014 .
- ↑ HER at kino-zeit.de . Retrieved April 8, 2014.
- ↑ HER at Entania.com ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved April 8, 2014.
- ↑ Here at epd-film.de. Retrieved April 16, 2015 .
- ↑ Her - In love with a computer . In: Nautilus - Adventure & Fantastic, Issue 121, 04/2014 . Adventure Media Publishing House . March 21, 2014. Accessed March 21, 2014. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Entry in the German synchronous index, accessed on August 19, 2016
