(Slate) – More than a decade later, the movie’s message isn’t what I remembered—and it’s way more unnerving than I expected.

We’ve all been Theo and we’ve all been her. Idealizing the perfect relationship but never quite facing ourselves to work for it, and being idealized and falling short of their fiction. With apps and humanoids and new bespoke bots to soothe our pains, we never have to directly face ourselves and each other anymore. I’m not sure if that’s a net good or productive for our collective growth, but it is absolutely the path that we’re on. (Read More)