Can love exist between two entities, one of which is bodiless? Director Spike Jonze displays, in his always-unique perspective, how love extends further emotionally and intellectually within people in his film Her.

The futuristic setting portrays life twenty years from now in a world where the iPhones and iPads of today have progressed even further into human life. With electronics having even more influence in this world (as would be feasible at the rate technology is progressing even today) such is the question: what happens when technology transitions from being the means to which people find love, to being the ends of love? In other words, when these iPhones become the “Apple” of people’s eyes?

Theodore, played by Joaquin Phoenix, writes the ideal, seemingly authentic, handwritten letters for the clients of beautifulhandwrittenletters.com. To help cope with his extreme loneliness, he buys an artificial intelligence operating system (AIOS) with the purpose of keeping him company. What starts out as a plug to fill a lonely void, slowly evolves into much more as Sam, the AIOS, voice by Scarlett Johansson, claims to be falling in love with Theodore.

What is striking about all of this is the concept of technology being programed to “feel” and relate to human beings. Sam explains her intuition that was programed into her, and part of this installment allows her to actually “evolve” and, in a way, feel whatever would be conceivable for an electronic to administer.

This is a fundamental idea that thrives within Her and is threaded with an unbelievably poignant soundtrack; it is difficult avoiding feeling emotionally involved with this film that evokes the myriad facets of any relationship.

So, to any skeptic of the idea of a human being forming a relationship, one with love unabashedly at its fulcrum, I could not encourage highly enough to give Her a chance. This film is a garden of introspective quotes that anyone can relate to. Her has been nominated for five Academy Awards and is still in theaters.