Samantha in Her (2013)
What’s that you say? Samantha, the husky-throated artificial intelligence entity played by a disembodied Scarlett Johansson in Her, isn’t a villain?
What else do you call something that provides artificial comfort and companionship to lonely Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix) while keeping him from getting on with his life? While simultaneously carrying on with many, many others?
To quote a Canadian proverb, “The devil places a pillow for a drunken man to fall upon.”
(That’s not Samantha above, by the way. It’s Theodore’s human friend Amy, played by Adams. Like all the most insidious A.I. movie villains, Samantha has no human form.)
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