Theodore Twombly Essay

How is it that it’s so hard to communicate with one another face to face yet we can carry a twenty-four-hour conversation on our devices? Is it because we can be quick to delete our true selves and permit ourselves a sense of empowerment to out alter egos; which we project to others for our satisfaction and their expectations of us. Or does the person simply lack proper social skills. When finally having that physical communication with someone you connect with is some type of level, whether if it’s a friendship or a committed relationship we kind of have to not emphasize on their imperfections but be more acceptance towards the other. In the other hand the film HER one protagonist Named Theodore Twombly is significantly showing some level

Not only that she is not a human, but she is one of the OS1’s; a computer program. After spending some trying to figure out what he wants, he soon feels a connection with Samantha, that went goes from friendship like communication to experiencing a much deeper attraction. In one scene the two go on a date like occasion and having fun and communicating like “normal” people and Sam emphasizing her want of a human body. Another scene was when Samantha brought in a surrogate so she can feel like she has a body and for him to perform intercourse. In a brief summary Sherry discusses about the turning test. It states: “a test in which the computer would be declared intelligent if it could convince people it was not a machine” (Turkle, Turning 45). In this case this scene best shows Theo is incapable and cannot necessarily detach ideal thought(s) that Samantha can be human too due to her human like qualities even if it means not psychically seeing her. Yet on Samantha’s thought process is capable to feel emotions of her own and his through tone goes back to: “Can machines develop emotions?...emotions that machines cannot achieve?”(Turkle, Lindman 139). Although Samantha is aware of the emotion(s) she is having throughout the film HER, she does not know the actual terms of the feeling(s), like when she sends him the song she of her creating a “photograph” of a