Moving Pictures
Film took a century to replicate the world. Have videogames done it already?
Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix), the hero of Spike Jonze’s Her, spends his evenings as many people reading this article probably do: playing videogames. A precise date is never mentioned, but Her looks to be set about a dozen or so years from now, and Theodore, happily sopping up the latest trends in tech, enjoys the bleeding edge of games available in this not-so-distant future. And what bold new frontiers of formal ingenuity and technological prowess await us in this prospective 10th or 11th generation of console gaming? Her provides an intriguing glimpse.
