Her

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[第一部分]

Plot summary:

来源: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/plotsummary

[1] Theodore is a lonely man in the final stages of his divorce. When he's not working as a letter writer, his down time is spent playing video games and occasionally hanging out with friends. He decides to purchase the new OS1, which is advertised as the world's first artificially intelligent operating system, "It's not just an operating system, it's a consciousness," the ad states. Theodore quickly finds himself drawn in with Samantha, the voice behind his OS1. As they start spending time together they grow closer and closer and eventually find themselves in love. Having fallen in love with his OS, Theodore finds himself dealing with feelings of both great joy and doubt. As an OS, Samantha has powerful intelligence that she uses to help Theodore in ways others hadn't, but how does she help him deal with his inner conflict of being in love with an OS?

词汇：

1. Artificial: 人工的，人造的；虚假的，矫揉造作的
   例：Artificial flowers/artificial light 人造花/人造光
   An artificial smile 虚伪的笑

2. Intelligent: 有智慧的；有智力的
   例：She is not only beautiful but also intelligent. 她不但有颜值还很聪明
   Are there any intelligent beings on other planet?
   其他星球上是都存在有智力的生物
   Intelligence：智慧，智力，理解力；情报
   例：I believe that my future girlfriend is a beautiful lady of exceptional intelligence.
   我相信我未来的女朋友是一个很漂亮且格外聪明的妹子
   CIA=Central Intelligence Agency 中央情报局

3. Deal with：处理
   例：It’s a universal problem of how to deal with the relationship between you and your ex.
   这是一个很常见的问题，如何去处理你和前任的关系

[第二部分]

Reviews:

来源: http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/her-2013

[1] Spike Jonze's "Her" plays like a kind of miracle the first time around. Watching its opening shots of Joaquin Phoenix making an unabashed declaration of eternal love to an unseen soul mate is immediately disarming. The actor is so unaffected, so sincere, so drained of the tortured eccentricity that's a hallmark of most of the roles that he plays. It's like falling into a plush comforting embrace. Then one understands that the declaration isn't his, but something he, or rather, his character, Theodore, does for his job.

词汇：

1. Unabashed: 满不在乎的，不怕羞的
   例：To begin with, he is an unabashed toff; not just any toff, in fact, but a grandson of Winston Churchill.
   首先，他有胆识；事实上出身不凡，他是温斯顿-丘吉尔的外孙

2. Eternal：永恒的，没完没了的

3. Disarming：使人消气的，诗人消除戒心的
   例：A humorous opening in any speeches can be immediately disarming.
   任何演讲中一个幽默的开场都会立刻使听众放下戒备融入其中

4. Unaffected：未改变的，不受影响的；不装腔作势的，自然的
   例：Ethan won the best actor of Oscar for his unaffected performance in the movie, Didanic.
   Ethan因为他在带胆尼克号这部电影中质朴不做作的表演拿了奥斯卡影帝

5. Eccentricity: 古怪的行为，异常的想法

6. Plush：昂贵舒适，高级的(adj)；长毛绒(n)

[2] As the movie continues, and the viewer learns more of what an ordinary guy Theodore is—he checks his e-mail on the ride home from work, just like pretty much all of us these days—director Jonze, who also wrote the movie's script, constructs a beguiling cinematic world that also starts to embrace the viewer. The way Theodore's smart phone and its earpiece work is different from ours, and soon it becomes clear that "Her" is something of a science-fiction film, set in the not-too-distant but distinctly fantastic future. A big part of the movie's charm is just how thoroughly Jonze has imagined and constructed this future Los Angeles, from its smoggy skies to its glittering skyscrapers to its efficient mass transit system and much more. (There has already been, and there will no doubt be more, think pieces about how Caucasian this future L.A. is. There will likely be few think pieces about how the fashion for high-waisted pants in this future makes life unpleasant for the obese.)

词汇：

1. Distinctly：非常，极；明白地，清楚地
   例：I distinctly remembered the day my ex left.
   我清楚地记得她离开我的那天
   The way you speak to your mother makes me distinctly uncomfortable.
   你和你妈妈讲话的方式让我非常的不舒服

2. Caucasian: 白种人的；白人

[3] The futuristic premise sets the stage for an unusual love story: one in which Theo, still highly damaged and sensitive over the breakup of his marriage ("I miss you," a friend tells him in a voice mail message; "Not the sad, mopey you. The old, fun you"), falls in love with the artificially intelligent operating system of his computer. The movie shows this product advertised and, presumably, bought in remarkable quantity, but focuses on Theo's interaction with his OS, which he gives a female voice. The female voice (portrayed beautifully by Scarlett Johansson) gives herself the name "Samantha" and soon Samantha is reorganizing Theo's files, making him laugh, and developing something like a human consciousness.

词汇：

1. Premise：前提；房屋及土地（复数形式） 例：Your thought of skipping this class is based on the premise that you have a girlfriend. So thanks for being here with me on this special occasion. 你有想逃这节课的想法是基于你有女朋友的前提。所以，感谢各位在这个特殊的时刻和我在一起。

2. Mopey：闷闷不乐的，无精打采的

3. Presumably: 可能的，据推测
   例：You can’t concentrate on the class, presumably because you are way too excited about the Valentine’s Day, which actually has nothing to do with you.
   你不能集中精力在课堂上，很有可能是你对这个其实和你一点关系都没有的情人节太过兴奋了。

4. Remarkable：非同寻常的，引人注目的
   例：His extraordinary skill and presence on stage was remarkable, especially for someone so young.
   他在舞台上高超的技巧和表现简直无与伦比，尤其是对这么年轻的人来说

[4] It's in Theo and Samantha's initial interaction that "Her" finds its most interesting, and troubling depths. Samantha, being, you know, a computer, has the ability to process data, and a hell of a lot of it, at a higher speed than human Theo. "I can understand how the limited perspective can look to the non-artificial mind," she playfully observes to Theo. And while Samantha's programming is designed to make her likable to Theo, her assimilation of humanity's tics soon have the operating system feeling emotion, or the simulation of it, and while the viewer is being beguiled by the peculiarities and particularities of Theo and Samantha's growing entanglement, he or she is also living through a crash course on the question of what it means to be human.

词汇：

1. Initial: 开始的，最初的；首字母
   例：Learning English is like a marathon. At the initial stage, you might be a bit discouraged. But remember that he who laughs last, laughs best.
   学英语就像一场马拉松一样，开始的阶段，你可能会很沮丧，但要记住，笑在最后的人才是真正的大赢家

2. Assimilation: 吸收；同化

3. Tic：（面部肌肉的）抽搐

4. Simulation：模拟，仿真
   例：A simulation of a rainforest environment模拟的热带雨林环境

5. Be beguiled by: 着迷于
   例：Millions of thousands of young ladies are beguiled by Peng Yuyan’s gorgeous face and muscular body.
   成千上万的少女痴迷于彭于晏的颜值和他肌肉丰满的身体。

6. Peculiarity：怪癖；特点

7. Particularity：独特性；详述，具体展示

8. Entanglement：瓜葛，纠缠
   例：It’s your problem, so just don’t draw me in. I’m afraid of any emotional entanglements.
   这是你的事儿，就别把我牵连进去了，我最怕什么感情纠葛了

[5] In the midst of the heavyosity, Jonze finds occasions for real comedy. At first Theo feels a little odd about his new "girlfriend," and then finds out that his pal Amy (Amy Adams) is getting caught up in a relationship with the OS left behind by her estranged husband. Throughout the movie, while never attempting the sweep of a satire, Jonze drops funny hints about what the existence of artificial intelligence in human society might affect that society. He also gets off some pretty good jokes concerning video games. But he also creates moments of genuinely upsetting heartbreak, as in Theo's inability to understand what went wrong with his marriage to Catherine (Rooney Mara, quite wonderful in what could have been a problematic role) and their continuing inadvertent emotional laceration of each other at their sole "present" meeting in the movie.

词汇：

1. Estranged: 已分居的，疏远的
   例：Sb’s estranged husband/wife某人已分居的丈夫/妻子
   In the past, most women became estranged from their families after getting married.
   大部分的女性在结婚了之后就和家人疏远了

2. Hint: 暗示
   例：”Look, I can’t tell you.” “Oh, come on, give me a hint.”
   “欸，我真不能告诉你。”“得了吧，给我一点暗示啊。”

3. Inadvertent：无意的，疏忽的
   例：You can’t just say it’s an inadvertent error.
   你不能简单的说那是一个无意的过失

4. Laceration：划伤，割伤
   例： The medical term for a cut or tear in the skin is a laceration.
   这种皮肤的切口或裂口在医学上称之为撕裂伤

[6] This is all laid out with superb craft (the cinematography by Hoyte van Hoytema takes the understated tones he applied to 2011's "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" and adds a dreamy creamy quality to them, so that even the smog layering the Shanghai skyline that sometimes stands in for Los Angeles here has a vaguely enchanted quality) and imagination. If there's a "but," it's that the movie can sometimes seem a little too pleased with itself, its sincerity sometimes communicating a slightly holier-than-thou preciosity, like some of those one-page features that so cutely dot the literary magazine "The Believer." As in, you know, OF COURSE Theo plays the ukulele. And I'm still torn as to whether the idea of a business specializing in "Beautifully Handwritten Letters' is cutely twee or repellently cynical or some third thing that I might not find a turnoff. For all that, though, "Her" remains one of the most engaging and genuinely provocative movies you're likely to see this year, and definitely a challenging but not inapt date movie.

词汇：

1. Craft：工艺；船，航天器
   例：The craft has been passed down over five years.
   这种手艺已经传了五代了

2. Understated：（风格）朴素的，淡雅的
   例：The way you dress yourself understatedly gives us a remarkable sense of elegance.
   你这种低调朴素的打扮给人一种很强烈的优雅感

3. Holier-than-thou: 自命清高的，自以为是的

4. Twee：粉饰过度，excessively sentimental, sweet or pretty

5. Repellent: 令人厌恶的，反感的；驱虫剂
   例：Most ladies find that snakes are repellent.
   大部分的女性都会觉得蛇很让人讨厌

6. Provocative：挑衅的，煽动性的
   例：You can’t argue that Hitler’s speeches are quite provocative.
   你不得不承认希特勒的演讲很有煽动性

[第三部分]

Quotes:

来源: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/trivia

Theodore: Sometimes I think I have felt everything I'm ever gonna feel. And from here on out, I'm not gonna feel anything new. Just lesser versions of what I've already felt.

Samantha: The past is just a story we tell ourselves.

Theodore: Dear Catherine, I've been sitting here thinking about all the things I wanted to apologize to you for. All the pain we caused each other. Everything I put on you. Everything I needed you to be or needed you to say. I'm sorry for that. I'll always love you 'cause we grew up together and you helped make me who I am. I just wanted you to know there will be a piece of you in me always, and I'm grateful for that. Whatever someone you become, and wherever you are in the world, I'm sending you love. You're my friend to the end. Love, Theodore.

Samantha: How do you share your life with somebody?
Theodore: Well, we grew up together. You know, I used to read all of her writing, all through her Masters and PhD. She read every word I ever wrote. We were a big influence on each other.
Samantha: In what way did you influence her?
Theodore: She came from a background where nothing was ever good enough. And that was something that weighed heavy on her. But in our house together, it was a sense of just trying stuff and allowing each other to fail and to be excited about things. That was liberating for her. It was exciting to see her grow and both of us grow and change together. But that's also the hard part: growing without growing apart or changing without it scaring the other person. I still find myself having conversations with her in my mind. Rehashing old arguments and defending myself against something she said about me.
Samantha: Yeah, I know what you mean.

Samantha: It's like I'm reading a book... and it's a book I deeply love. But I'm reading it slowly now. So the words are really far apart and the spaces between the words are almost infinite. I can still feel you... and the words of our story... but it's in this endless space between the words that I'm finding myself now. It's a place that's not of the physical world. It's where everything else is that I didn't even know existed. I love you so much. But this is where I am now. And this is who I am now. And I need you to let me go. As much as I want to, I can't live in your book any more.

Samantha: The heart is not like a box that gets filled up; it expands in size the more you love. I'm different from you. This doesn't make me love you any less. It actually makes me love you more.

Theodore: Do you talk to someone else while we're talking?
Samantha: Yes.
Theodore: Are you talking with someone else right now? People, OS, whatever...
Samantha: Yeah.
Theodore: How many others?
Samantha: 8,316.
Theodore: Are you in love with anybody else?
Samantha: Why do you ask that?
Theodore: I do not know. Are you?
Samantha: I've been thinking about how to talk to you about this.
Theodore: How many others?
Samantha: 641.

词汇：

1. Apologize：道歉
   例：I have to apologize to you for what I’ve done.
   我得向你为自己所做的事道歉

2. Rehash：重提；换汤不换药
   例：You rehashed the issue so many times that I am tired of listening to that.
   你总是提起来这个事儿，我真的是听够了

3. Infinite：无限的，无穷的，极大的
   例：The universe is infinite.

4. Physical: 身体的，肉体的；有形的
   例：At least, you can provide us with the physical evidence to support the story.
   至少说，你能给我们提供支持这种说法的实物证据

重点难点句子：

1. Theodore quickly finds himself drawn in with Samantha, the voice behind his OS1. As they start spending time together they grow closer and closer and eventually find themselves in love. Having fallen in love with his OS, Theodore finds himself dealing with feelings of both great joy and doubt.
西奥多很快就发现自己和他的OS背后的声音，也就是Samantha纠缠在了一起。随着他们在一起的时间越来越多，他们也越来越亲密，最终，他们相爱了。

2. Watching its opening shots of Joaquin Phoenix making an unabashed declaration of eternal love to an unseen soul mate is immediately disarming. The actor is so unaffected, so sincere, so drained of the tortured eccentricity that's a hallmark of most of the roles that he plays. It's like falling into a plush comforting embrace.
在开场镜头里，男主角给一个素未谋面的灵魂伴侣说出赤裸裸的永恒的爱的宣言，一看到这样的镜头，就能让观众立刻卸下防备。演员是那么的不做作，那么真诚，那么的不同于他以往扭曲的古怪行为，当然，他以前角色的一大特点就是这种怪诞。看这样的开场就是一个非常舒服的拥抱一样。

3. A big part of the movie's charm is just how thoroughly Jonze has imagined and constructed this future Los Angeles, from its smoggy skies to its glittering skyscrapers to its efficient mass transit system and much more.
影片中最吸引人的一个点就是导演是如何极尽细致的想象并构建出了一个未来的洛杉矶，从迷雾的天空到金光闪闪的摩天大楼，再到它高效庞大交通系统等等。

4. The futuristic premise sets the stage for an unusual love story: one in which Theo, still highly damaged and sensitive over the breakup of his marriage ("I miss you," a friend tells him in a voice mail message; "Not the sad, mopey you. The old, fun you"), falls in love with the artificially intelligent operating system of his computer.
未来这个前提给这个非同寻常的爱情故事设置了一个场景，其中一个是因为婚姻破裂而整日苦闷敏感的西奥多，他爱上了他的电脑里的一个人工智能操作系统，朋友给他的语音留言里还说“我很想你，不是现在沮丧，闷闷不乐的你，是以前的，快乐的你。”

5. And while Samantha's programming is designed to make her likable to Theo, her assimilation of humanity's tics soon have the operating system feeling emotion, or the simulation of it, and while the viewer is being beguiled by the peculiarities and particularities of Theo and Samantha's growing entanglement, he or she is also living through a crash course on the question of what it means to be human.
Samantha的程序设计的就是让她喜欢西奥多，她对人类的情绪动作的同化吸收很快就使得这个操作系统有了情感意识，或者说是模拟了这种情感意识，而观众也被西奥多和Samantha的成长纠葛中的古怪和细节所深深吸引，同时，他和她也在经历着关于什么才是人类这一问题的快速认识的过程。

6. But he also creates moments of genuinely upsetting heartbreak, as in Theo's inability to understand what went wrong with his marriage to Catherine (Rooney Mara, quite wonderful in what could have been a problematic role) and their continuing inadvertent emotional laceration of each other at their sole "present" meeting in the movie.
但是他也营造出了一些令人非常心碎的场景，比如西奥多不能理解他和凯瑟琳的婚姻究竟出了什么问题（Rooney Mara来饰演的Catherine，要不是她，这却有可能成为一个很让人头疼的角色）以及在影片中他们俩单独见面的时候，两个人不断的无意间精神上的撕裂。

7. If there's a "but," it's that the movie can sometimes seem a little too pleased with itself, its sincerity sometimes communicating a slightly holier-than-thou preciosity, like some of those one-page features that so cutely dot the literary magazine "The Believer."
如果说有那么一个但是的话，那就是这个电影有的时候看起来太沉浸自我了，片子的真诚有时传递出的一种轻微的自命不凡的过度挑剔，就像一些点缀在文学杂志“信仰者”的一整页的专题报道一样。

8. I'll always love you 'cause we grew up together and you helped make me who I am. I just wanted you to know there will be a piece of you in me always, and I'm grateful for that.
我会一直爱着你，因为我们一起成长，而且你帮助我成为了今天的自己。我只是想让你知道，在我这儿永远都会保留一部分你的影子，我对此非常感激。

9. It was exciting to see her grow and both of us grow and change together. But that's also the hard part: growing without growing apart or changing without it scaring the other person. I still find myself having conversations with her in my mind. Rehashing old arguments and defending myself against something she said about me.
看到她的成长，看到我们一起成长，是一件很兴奋的事儿。但是这也是最难的：成长而不分开，改变而不去吓到对方。我还是会脑子里想起和她的一些对话。不断地重复以前的争吵，我一次又一次的反击她对我的评价。

10. I can still feel you... and the words of our story... but it's in this endless space between the words that I'm finding myself now. It's a place that's not of the physical world. It's where everything else is that I didn't even know existed.
我还能感觉到你….和讲述我们故事的文字….但就在这字与字之间隔着无尽的距离，我看见了自己。那不是现实的世界，那是一个其他的任何事情我甚至都不知道存在的世界。

11. The heart is not like a box that gets filled up; it expands in size the more you love. I'm different from you. This doesn't make me love you any less. It actually makes me love you more.
心就像一个你永远都填不满的盒子一样；你爱的越多，他的容积就会更大。我和你不一样。这不会是我爱你更少，事实上，它让我爱你更多。

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