If the beauty of the classic Western at least partially lies in its dependably simplistic morality — a villain doing wrong; and a hero stopping them cold — the modern “neo-western” as Ari Aster’s satirically topical film has often been classified, becomes almost the literal opposite: A film where morality shifts and scuttles about, before getting bludgeoned, shot, blown up, and, eventually paved over and turned into a high-tech office building.
Details the mental decline of a social pariah who eventually develops a new identity to cope with his pain.
It’s just too long and dull for what it is.
A lonely introvert finds comfort in the “arms” of his new, highly-advanced cell phone operating system in Her. Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) is demoralized by the breakup of his marriage to his first love, Catherine (Rooney Mara). It doesn’t help matters that his job as a creative letter writer requires him to be fully in […]