Maybe, maybe not. I won't split hairs on that, as I think we're all mostly products of circumstances.

"As usually, I haven't seen it, so I can't say anything."

There's also this guy -

Damn soul takers everywhere.

... I really wanted to see this based on the trailer. Now I feel like I lost at feminism for the day.

Its about social isolation, how when we are isolated we project our feelings of need onto people who might not respond. Have you ever read The Heard Is a Lonely Hunter?

Aha. That's what I thought. I figured Spike Jonze was too smart to use the guy-searching-for-perfect-woman trope in an uncritical way. You can't necessarily tell what a movie will be like from the trailer.

Yeah, this was a really weird take down piece by the author. He is divorced and was talking to both his ex and another woman who isn't necessarily a romantic interest. If the trailer indicated that then I'm just too tired right now ;). It's not like he had a bunch of dates with women and then said 'oh hey, it's been…

Have you seen that Life 2.0 documentary? This couple falls in love in the virtual world, then brings it into reality, only to find out virtual reality didn't match up. We can edit ourselves online in a way that reality makes impossible.

I was just going to mention that. What a sad, beautiful movie!

I saw this at the New York Film Festival, and went in feeling exactly the same way about the trailer. The movie actually does a pretty good job of undermining this trope, and there's even a scene in which Pheonix's character is specifically called out on his inability to deal with the complexity of a real woman with…

At least it looks like they're actually going to address the fact that he doesn't have his shit together and that's why his only relationship is a one-sided love affair with an OS.

That's interesting... my take on the trailer I saw was more of a sci-fi approach, which is to say when is sentient start? Can you fall in love with a thing? At what point does this abstract box become so real it might as well be real? Of course all of that done through the most human of emotions, love.

I don't care what anybody says, I want to see this.

"Partly because she doesn't exist and partly because if she does, she's a computer"

Jussayin'. No one beats up on Sir Patrick Stewart for being an advocate.

BUT I WANT ONLY ACCREDITED VICTIMS TO VOICE CONCERNS ABOUT CIVIL RIGHTS

Jesus Christ, fuck babies and horses and outer space. Is there anything more beautiful in this universe than a confident person of any gender, shape, or size dancing alone and enjoying the fuck out of it? I think not.

KILLED IT.

yes, it is the best they've got, and all they can do.