ben-236-711409 Reviews

Lily & Kat (2015)

Realistic and charming

[9/10 · 28 March 2015]

It's the first movie I saw that takes a very strong position against what everyone else is hyping: the emptiness of over-sexualized, pretty and nevertheless un-inspired women. Almost every scene seems to try to put forward some form of eroticism that the actresses realistically show. But contrary to common movies, this movies does not make it pretty, nothing happens and truthfully nobody cares. It is re-definition of what it means to be pretty, over-sexualized and again .. uninspired.

I mean, there is nothing that should turn the viewer off. The dresses are elegant, the women appear funny and are certainly looking pretty. But there is simply no magic in their lives anywhere. They are plain boring and it is a paid to imagine having to live with any person in this movie for longer than 10 seconds. So I think the movie is artistic in some respect.

Her (2013)

Scary

[9/10 · 11 February 2015]

What makes this movie so scary is that the A.I. creates a simulacrum of the human intellect - a pure fiction - that can never be surpassed or even reached by a normal human being. No human being can give the protagonist the illusion of understanding as well as the artificial intelligence. It is like the shere size and void told us that we are nothing in the course of being, the A.I. tells us that we are nothing in intellect compared to the intelligence we created.

What makes it beautiful is that you can clearly see the idea coming through in the movie that the likability and empathy generated between the human actors is coming from the mystery that their incompability produces. The stress, the anxiety, the frustration, remain in the hands of the humans. The idea that the A.I. would "fake" this mystery would make it again a "suspicious" character. If it fully simulates the human experience it loses its vibrance and attractiveness. The intensity of the human being hence appears to stay more real than that of the simulacrum, which gives hope and also shows a way to perceive ourselves in a less perfection-driven manner.

So a great movie.