Her

I hope you all agree that Her should have won more than just one Academy Award. I can suggest the one for Best song, which went to the very annoying Frozen song. Honestly, I really can't see what you all are concerned about. An average Disney movie, not even the best one so far, beautiful location as I love Nordic countries, but that's all. The song is quite good, is very Disney, but an Oscar for that? No way. Karen O deserved that, if you guys from the Academy didn't want to be politically correct and gave it to the Mandela song by U2 which was actually pretty good.

Was The Moon Song the only thing I enjoyed of Her? Hell no. The story is beautiful and romantic without being cheesy or banal and I guess in the end the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay was the most appropriate for such a kind of movie.

I even faced my hatred for Scarlett Johansson (which has nothing to do with the fact she's undoubtfully gorgeous and she's got a breast I can never ever grow, no matter how many pregnancies I'll have) and really liked her voice performance. The movie is set in a future but not scary Los Angeles where computers, apps and softwares are a huge part of daily life for everybody. A green-eyed and moustached Joaquin Phoenix is Theodore, a sensitive guy whose job is making up letters for every occasion at BeautifulHandwrittenLetters.com. That sounds a bit like Tom and his greeting cards from (500) Days of Summer, and the tendency to melancholia and unhappy love is quite the same. Theodore is getting divorced and hasn't had a date in ages. He seems so unwilling to start a relationship he (spoiler!) even rejects Olivia Wilde and we all know that nobody could do that and be in his right mind. Theodore feels alone and buys this new operative system with a consciousness, programmed to be like a real person. He's charmed by Samantha's non-metallic, hoarse voice and they start a relationship which eventually turns into love. Now don't imagine any kind of relationship between a sort of robot and a human being, because it's not. Samantha talks, makes jokes, laughs, gets angry and feels like a person and maybe that's the point. The film isn't a love story between a man and an operative system, it's a love story - fullstop. That's why I don't think Theodore chooses Samantha because it's easier and less complicated than dating a person with a body. He chooses to be with her after having experienced all the other possibilities reality can offer to a quite handsome, even if moany, man. And that's the core of pure and mature love. I guess instead she loves him back because she knows little else and starts getting away when she comes to experience how wide the world can be, especially if it's an infinite, borderless virtual one.

The movie really broadens your mind about the way people act in relationships and deal with love. I left the theatre and felt like huge, thinking of all the connections we make in our lives and how we really need to experience the sense of possession to feel we're in love with someone. This kind of awareness leaves you speechless, while images of a beautiful LA roll on the screen, made even more beautiful through a great colour grading which guessed right the perfect tint. I've never been a LA person as I picture myself more like an East Coast girl, but Spike Jonze made me enjoy the sunny skyline like no director before. Plus, am I the only one thinking he's hot? Because, let me tell you that, he is and I wouldn't mind at all if he played any song on the uke for me. No offense, Joaquin.