ABSTRACT
The latest Spike Jonze film, Her, narrates a future that is quite close and quite similar to our present time. The crystal-clear transparency of water, the reflecting power of the buildings’ crystal surfaces, the tridimensionality of videogames, the sparkling brilliance of urban landscapes at night, the glass elevators, are all elements selected to compose a peculiar representation of the world of the future. The transparency of this future habitat is amazing. In the movie, the transparent and rarefied atmosphere of the future is also expressed by representing time as floating in an everlasting present, a future imagined as a space-time frame frozen in the moment of the event. The growing technological complexity of the future is accompanied by the accomplished simplification of the material quality of life. According to Ethel Person the key psychological elements of love are idealization and the desire to be united with the beloved.
