![]() ![]() ![]() I'd say the cinematography is on par with Drive and/or Lost in Translation in terms of the style. They also make great use of the natural backlighting of Shanghai, and the colors all fuse to make it a really pretty movie. He delivers such a powerful and emotional performance and the close ups are there to capture it all. Like their face is right in your face, so you just have to look at it. The reason I love it so much and believe it works so well is because it allows you to see the emotions of the character so plainly. My personal favorite shot to see and use is the extreme close up. In my opinion, moreso than any other film this year, Her has the perfect mix of complex ideas, story, and character development. They're all so natural and yet none of us truly understand how they work. And after the screening, as well as during, I found myself questioning things in my own life that either don't make sense or don't have to make sense. It moves through all of the most complex and interesting questions that we should be asking ourselves about what it means to be a human being. Every scene in this movie is straight up powerful! Like it will fill your heart with sadness and happiness and pain and guilt and confusion. ![]() And unlike most who would then say that it's predictable and not worth watching, I consider that awesome, because it means that the script is tight enough to tell a good story with a believable arc. I knew how this movie was going to end 30 minutes in. It was an emotional roller coaster, and the score assisted in that so well. I laughed, I cried, my brain got all tingly. Sure, you see everything on the screen, which is already beautiful, but then that music hits you and the emotions just start to run. The music paired with the beautiful sound design make you FEEL the movie. There are so many things that make this movie special, but I'll just mention a few. I think it's because it is so representational of what it's like to be human. This is the best film I have seen all year, and I saw just about every good film to hit theaters in 2013. ![]()
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