What Spike Jonze’s New Movie “Her” Says About Silicon Valley Dystopia
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December 30, 2013

Via Pando Daily:

“We wanted the world to be warm and tactile and nice and comfortable, this sort of utopian future that is basically a heightened version of our world, where everything is nice and comfortable but there’s still loneliness. To have loneliness in that kind of world, where everything is nice, that’s our particular kind of melancholy.” – Spike Jonze.

The buzz around Spike Jonze’s new sci-fi flick “Her” is just beginning.

At the moment it’s only playing in select theaters in eight cities, getting a wider release January 10th. That hasn’t stopped top tier critics from The New York Times t...

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