Her an Oscar Hopeful

Her
Director: Spike Jonze
Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson, Amy Adams
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-fi

Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) "just" went through a rough divorce. Now feeling very lonely and sad he doesn't have much contact with outsiders of any type. After a lonely stroll through a mall he comes across a brand new Operating System (OS). Theodore gets the OS in the first few moments with talking to the OS it  names it self Samantha (Scarlett Johansson). Samantha is an OS system that is more friendly and very human like. After a few instances Theodore and Samantha seem to fall in love with the other. Each of them showing different things the other has never seen or experienced before. Can love with a OS system really last? Or does the ever growing mind of an OS system out grow the mind of a full grown adult?

Her is gorgeous. The cinematography has such a soft mood there are a lot of pastel colors that I really enjoyed. Then entire movie has excellent acting even from Scarlett Johansson who does just the voice of the OS system. Her is set in a not to distance future the writers never tell you when exactly its set in, which is nice. It has this sort of whimsical wonder thinking that this could be coming soon in real life. Everything is so clean in ever scene. Spike Jonze went with really specific colors. There is a large absent of the color blue its mostly warm colors and earthy tones. I for one really want to play the video game that Theodore was playing throughout the whole film. Which actually could be deeper to the story then one may think.

8/10

Nominations
Best Original Screen Play
Best Achivment in Production Design
Best Original Song
Best Score
Best Picture

In best original screen play Spike Jonze is going up against, Bob Nelson (Nebraska) David O. Russell & Eric Warren Singer (American Hustle) Woody Allen (Blue Jasmine), Craig Borton & Melisa Wallack (Dallas Buyers Club). Her has been winning a lot of critics choice stuff for best original screen play it won a Golden Globe for best screen play. I feel Her could take this one home. Its a magnificent screen play such a well crafted original story that is so out of the ordinary its down right brilliant. The section is up against some tough contenders all of the writing is very good. The king of Oscar Nominations is nominated Woody Allen who has been nominated a whopping 30+ times for different mediums in films. I think Woody Allen is his biggest rival this year. The thing that has Spike a head of the rest is that we have all seen movies like the others before, maybe not Nebraska as much, but the other three aren't that super original. Yes Her is a love story it follows a lot of the love story plots but in its own special way Her is completely different.

Much like a lot of the other films Her is nominated with Production Design will be a battle. Its going up against, American Hustle, Gravity, The Great Gatsby, and 12 Years A Slave. Her had some great production design the future LA setting was great, the fake rail way system was a cool idea and a few LA firends are hoping that a railway system like that can become a reality. The one design aspect that sticks out to most people that I have talked to about Her is the choice in pants that all the men are wearing. Its a real, I don't know how to put it but eclectic way of dressing that is for sure. Potentially Her could take this award home other wise 12 Years a Slave is also a hottie in this category.

The original song for her is called "The Moon Song" it was writing by Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the film writer Spike Jonze. Its going up against, Pharrell Williams who wrote "Happy" for Despicable Me 2 Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez for the song "Let It Go" for Frozen, and U2 who wrote "Ordinary Love" for Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. There was a fifth nomination for the film "Alone Yet Not Alone" but it was revoked due to some sort of foul play with the head of the music section of the academy. Not sure exactly what happened at this moment.  Much like last year a superstar musician won, Adele for Skyfall. I believe that U2 will win over the others. The Academy like superstars its just simple like that.

Best original is going to go to Her,Gravity, The Book Thief, Philomena or Saving Mr. Banks. None of these scores really stood out to me to be that amazing. I actually think 12 Years A Slave got a little snubbed in this category that had a really good sound track. I think this will go to Gravity instead of Her. What Gravity does to have to score fit so well with the film is great, it helps a lot with the spitefulness of it a lot and they both complement each other perfectly.