Her

Last saturday I saw the movie Her with Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson. The short summary of it is: A man falls in love with his OS an artificial intelligence.

This film is already one of my highlights in 2014. The story was thoroughly researched and very well laid out. Besides the story and brilliant playing of Joaquin (and Scarlett who is only present with her voice) the surrounding impressed me the most.

Little details like it is totally normal and actually appreciated that you are first "staking" someones life before dating them, programs and games that interact with you or that everything works flawlessly with voice recognition. Mouse and keyboard are banned input devices.

The art design was in general superb. The wardrobe had a very realistic look and feel and was absolutley plausible. Same goes for the environment. The city (I think in the movie should be future Los Angeles) didn't look highly clean or a total waste dump. It looked real. I never thought about visual effects (and I am sure there very a bunch of them) and was absolutely sucked into the story and their characters.

Her is a very intense and thrilling love story and I highly recommend watching it.