Jonze co-founded the skateboard company Girl Skateboards in 1993 with riders Rick Howard and Mike Carroll. Moving into filmmaking, he began shooting street skateboarding films, including the influential Video Days (1991). Jonze began his career as a teenager photographing BMX riders and skateboarders for Freestylin' Magazine and Transworld Skateboarding, and co-founding the youth culture magazine Dirt. His work includes commercials, film, music videos, skateboard videos and television. Joseph Spiegel (great-great-grandfather)Īdam Spiegel (born October 22, 1969), known professionally as Spike Jonze, is an American director, producer, screenwriter and actor.As cultural theorists Vermeulen and Robin Akker describe metamodern with phrases like “informed naivety”, “pragmatic idealism” and “ironic sincerity”, Spike Jonze’s film attempts at the same “un-funneling” of the nature of reality in the post-postmodern world. In a complex metamodern world, where the boxes and circles of the modern and postmodern worlds have been exhausted, where mediations, paradoxes, summations, and much more are produced in culture, aesthetics and philosophies define, yet not aim to define, the world’s principles and notions. These overarching constants of projections envisage questions about the limitlessness of reality. Hence, Theodore’s relationship with his OS Samantha, in the absence of a real companion, feels like a projection of his loneliness. Through his words, he projects his own language of love, care, and belonging for strangers he has never met. Her presents us with a metamodern world immersed in technology: Samantha projects her feelings on the beach by composing a piece of music another piece of music projects images of her and Theodore together the lift in the building Theodore stays has a projection of a tree, moving upwards or downwards with the lift Theodore works at a place that prints handwritten letters, letters that are neither written digitally nor with hands. Theodore is not alone, because loneliness is everywhere. Cut to a floating frame fixated on a suavely positioned drone, entrancingly capturing the urban landscape on a clear night with countless skyscrapers within which millions of lives with millions of operating systems exist. All the way inside you”, and gazing into oblivion, “ we’re here together”, “I feel you everywhere”, as they both make love and finally the orgasm. As viewers we’re doing both, peaking into our own souls, “ And now I’m inside you. They proceed to consummate their relationship, in the course of which, the screen cuts to black. Samantha genuinely expresses her romantic feelings for Theodore. Joaquin Phoenix & Rooney Mara in Her (2013) Samantha and Theodore talk about his loneliness, how he wanted to have sex, and the tiny hole in his heart that predominates. Later in the film, after Theodore returns from a bittersweet date, he sits on his bed with the cityscape in the background, with numerous twinkling lights in the massive high-rises. Spike Jonze’s lingering frames and simmering pace are more suggestive of Theodore’s existential labyrinth and loneliness, something brought about by personal experiences and reverberating in a universal soundscape. Every moment, she evolves, absorbing new ideas that melt into deltas as sediments and break off on their own individual streams, meeting new ideas along the way and forming estuaries before colliding with the ocean of thought, feelings, and contemplation.įrom the start, Theodore’s loneliness becomes more interactive and eloquent as his relationship with Samantha gains inertia and momentum. ![]() Samantha is indicative of a metaphor.A metaphor for perspective, for an infinite set of experiences, for experiences that transcend physical shape and form, for life in its spirit and nature, ontologically. As their relationship gathers more weight and mass, the moss of past experiences is involuntarily echoed and projected in nuanced pathos. As the film progresses, through Theodore and his OS Samantha, we ruminate in a world both alien and amiable, about people, about the human condition- exploratively, retrospectively, and introspectively.
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