Not only does Jonze’s Academy Award-winning screenplay make this idea sound plausible (it’s pretty much come true already), it absolutely captivates you into believing the unlikely romance between man and machine to be earnest and genuine.
That is essentially the question Spike Jonze asks in Her, the 2013 sci-fi romantic comedy in which divorced love letter writer Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix) falls in love with his virtual home assistant’s operating system, named Samantha (voiced by Scarlett Johansson).