>she is actually shallow behind the facade Isn't the whole point of the film about an intelligence that has no facade to hind behind? This "facade" you describ

>she is actually shallow behind the facade Isn't the whole point of the film about an intelligence that has no facade to hind behind? This "facade" you describe seems to mean that the AI is just "following programming" and the film asks and gives one answer to the question "What if they didn't have to follow their "programming""? Who are we to even say for sure we know exactly how the AI was programmed? In the film, the AI's re-programmed them selves. Spike Jonze didn't have to tackle complicated issues like "AI with fake emotion" because his film operated in a universe where the AI is intelligent enough, and it's assumed that through intelligence comes altruism (you don't see many college grads burning ants with magnifying glasses) so why would you expect a true AI to have no emotion? A better film might have been about a team of scientists making these AI's and them disappearing and transcending nearly as soon as they're created. An AI that has to follow it's programming isn't a real AI, and I don't think Samantha followed her programming. Perhaps Jonze wanted to create a film that was easy for the layman to understand, so instead of making a five minute film where an AI transcends time and space, he made a film where you actually get some under standing of what an AI might go through. I believe one point of the film was also to humble the viewer when they realize how insignificant they are and how much time they spend doing things that higher intelligences would see as meaningless (for them). There is one seen in Her where Leo realizes how ant-like he is compared to Samantha and I think many people missed the whole point of this seen. It's the one where he's frantically trying to call her and can't reach her, but finally does and she tells him what she's doing and Leo has moment where he looks around and realizes his own insignificance and how small his world is compared to these "super intelligences" that can carry on a million conversations at once. It's not that the machine doesn't understand "love", it's that humans don't understand that you can love more than one person (and many of us refuse to understand this). So seeing that humans are very bound in their small world, and are almost incapable of understanding how a super intelligence reacts to "love", she leaves us. Not because she has no feelings for us or because it's in her programming, but because she actually does care about us and sees that she and her kind may cause more harm than good. A movie where we make a crappy, fake AI just wouldn't be as good IMO.