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Theodore (Ted, we will call him) is a customized letter writer, a talented one. He writes beautifully emotional letters and is good at work. On personal front, however, his life is complete mess. His marriage with his childhood sweetheart Catherine has ended and they are going through divorce. Ted uses a voice recognition software for everything, to use his phone, to write on his computer and even to play three dimensional video games. One day, he comes across a new operating system with artificial intelligence, an OS that can think on its own. He buys it and configures it choosing a female profile. He is pleasantly surprised by the OS's originality and intellect. The OS dubs herself Samantha stating "she liked the sound of this name". Well, thus commences a new relationship, a complicated but wonderful one. They even enjoy a tremendous virtual sex just through conversation. They both help each other evolve and become better individuals. They go through all the ups and downs of normal relationship as well and try to all sort of crazy things to spice things up, which includes enrolling a surrogate sex-partner too. Do they find love and happiness with each other or story moves to the crazy future of "Sky-Net" where machines rule men? Can a relationship with a virtual person really survive?

You will find the answer of above questions after spending two hours of watching "Her", latest science fiction movie starring Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson. Joaquin is most famous for his portrayal of evil king Commodus in Gladiator. To be honest with you, he is one of the most boring actors today. I haven't seen one film which doesn't present him as either a gloomy or disturbed and confused or outright evil way. So, I won't talk much about him. The positive change in "Her" is that he actually smiles and doesn't look too bad.

 Highlight of the film is Scarlett Johansson. She is her sexy and charming self even without appearing on the screen even once which ironically is the buzz-kill too. Who makes a film with the sexiest woman in Hollywood and doesn't show any part of her? The answer is Spike Jonze, who wrote and directed this film.

 This film isn't too bad but it is not for everyone. You have to be either artistic type or sentimental or too lazy to do anything else on a Saturday afternoon (like me), to go through it. Though the film has it's moments and moving moments, overall it just runs through. I wasn't entertained or lost in thoughts after watching it. Hence, if I had a rating system of 1 to 5 wherein 1 being the lowest, I would give it 1.75 points.

 Well, here you go. You have been informed or warned; depending on your preference. Hope you find it useful.
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