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In the near future, Theodore Twombly, an introverted writer for a letter writing service, is
trying to deal with his lonely life and the impending finalization of his divorce from his childhood love.

One day walking home after work he sees an ad for an artificial intelligence operating system called OS.1 and buys it. When he gets home he installs it, the set up guide asks him some questions to best fit the OS to his needs, and then he hears a soft “Hello”. Seemingly shy they start a conversation, as if meeting someone who is going to be one of your closest friends, and when asked her name she says Samantha, she chose that name after reading a baby book in 0.286 seconds.

Samantha helps Theodore open up and love life again, and Theodore helps Samantha live life and experience the world. Which leads them to fall in love with each other, as complicated as that is.


I wasn’t sure about this movie the first time I saw a trailer for it last summer, but the low amount of advertising that I experienced for it made it grow on me, till I couldn’t wait to see it. Spike Jonze did a great job writing and directing, but something I noticed was how much the melancholy in this movie reminded me of his last movie, Where the Wild Things Are, as if this could be a sequel almost to that movie. That being said, the comedy in this movie was superb, it always came when it was needed and it didn’t deflate the gravity of the situation.

I highly recommend this movie, but there were some scenes where I was a little uncomfortable and couldn’t realize more that I was in a room full of strangers experiencing it. So if you do feel uncomfortable in situations like that, wait for video release, but if you don’t mind 2-5 minutes, all together, of uncomfortableness then by all means, yes see it in theaters.


I give it 4 out of 5


Written by Jeff Potts