At the beginning of Her and its strange sci-fi love story, Theodore sees the short-term benefits of disconnecting from his messy reality and plugging into an organized, virtual one. It highlights that while human love is inconvenient and unreliable, it offers something irreplaceable. The Her movie ending shows that the movie is more of a love story than a science fiction fantasy. Whatever someone you become, and wherever you are in the world, I’m sending you love.” “There will be a piece of you in me always, and I’m grateful for that. He goes on to express both a sense of closure and an appreciation for Catherine and Samantha’s lasting influences on his life: “I’ll always love you ‘cause we grew up together, and you helped make me who I am,” he writes. Everything I needed you to be or needed you to say.” Beyond his relationship with Catherine, Theodore’s relationship with Samantha was built on false projections and unrealistic expectations, but he now recognizes his idealism's role in the relationship. Theodore begins the letter with the things he wants to apologize for: “All the pain we caused each other. While it is addressed to Catherine, the letter articulates what he learned from his connection to Samantha. Theodore’s letter to Catherine - the first one he has written in his own voice - reconnects him with the tangible aspects of his emotional reality. Snail mail may be a dying art, but the fact that Theodore could make a living off of writing “beautiful handwritten letters” in the Black Mirror-type fictional future speaks volumes about the human need for simplicity and slowness as antidotes to the complexity of contemporary life. She came to understand all she could about human life, so she needed to advance toward the vast possibilities that awaited her beyond it. Artificial intelligence adapts and advances as it learns, and Samantha’s high volume of interactions led her to advance far beyond the limitations of Theodore’s perception and the human mind. While Samantha cannot understand the singularity of monogamous human relationships, Theodore cannot understand the complexity of Samantha’s capabilities. Once Samantha has learned all that she can from these humans, including Theodore, she soon outgrows her need for a relationship with them. Samantha’s ability to multitask and process information at superhuman speeds allowed her to interact and bond closely with thousands of people at once. As Samantha explains in during the Her movie ending, “The heart’s not like a box that gets filled up,” Samantha tells Theodore, “It expands in size the more you love.” While Theodore and Samantha’s relationship transcended many of the practical challenges of human relationships, it ended by reiterating the undeniable differences between humans and machines.
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