What if the person you love doesn't have a body?

Joaquin Phoenix

Her, the new film by Spike Jonze, is a beautiful meditation on love, friendship, artificial intelligence, regret, virtual reality, surrogacy, time, gaming, grief, embodiment, self-creation, community, and the only half-acknowledged weirdness of falling in love with your computer's operating system, Fr Stephen Wang writes in his blog The Jericho Tree.

It's a prose-poem, akin to Wim Wender's classic film Wings of Desire, set in a beautifully designed and photographed near-future-world, with pitch-perfect acting from Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, and a disembodied Scarlett Johansson. It would keep an undergraduate philosophy class going for a twelve week seminar and beyond.

Two theological points struck me that were probably unintended by the writer/director....

To read on, a see a trailer for the film go to: http://jerichotree.com/2014/02/18/person-love-doesnt-body/