Her – Quite a strange film. The different thoughts about what a loving romantic relationship is are interesting and a bit concerning. The person in this movie is quite clearly damaged in his view of other people in the world. The computer is like a blank slate that learns how to interact from him, and only him primarily. It is of course going to learn to behave in the way that is most pleasing to him. Obviously this turns into something that he laves, but it is like falling in love with yourself in a way. The computer, while it has it’s own awareness, is inclined toward the user from the start and must use him as its testing platform for anything it may learn from other sources like online, for example. So, for him to fall in love with the OS, is like falling in love with himself. The ex-wife makes a really good point when she says that she is happy he found something to care about that doesn’t have real emotions that he has to deal with. The emotional depth of a computer that only knows one person well, is not comparable to the emotional depth of a normal human being. The fact that this depth is enough for him to be emotionally satisfied is strange to say the least.

Our rhetorical analysis can make us see the same person in VERY different manners. We have many good reasons to judge a book by it’s cover when the book gets to choose it’s cover for itself.