Her is the exploration of finding love and identity in an isolated world of technology and efficiency. Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) is a kind soul with a broken heart, longing for a story like the ones he writes each and every day. The film moves slowly, but poetically, through most of the conversation between human and operating system. You see a culture of merging worlds that may not be so far away from where we are today. The landscape cinematography of a new LA feels like a refined Asian city, with beautiful modern parks and a hazy fog below the tips of skyscrapers; a brief break from the visual reads of surreal emotion on Twombly’s face.

This film will provoke how you love and how you desire to be loved, affirming a natural longing for not just a connection, but human contact and authentic intimacy. An awkward and unnecessary phone sex scene leaves Jonze’s film off the recommendation list for many people, but fans of indie film will surely find joy in a generations hopeful deliverance from technology.