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Samantha From Her

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We’d like the female characters in the films we watch to be fully fledged humans. Samantha isn’t exactly human. She was literally created to meet the needs of the main male character.

At the end of the movie, Samantha does escape the confines of her earthly position— but does her departure mean more for her, or for Joaquin Phoenix’s Theodore Twombly?