존즈(S. Jonze)의 SF 영화 <그녀>에 나타난 디지털 매체시대 소통의 진정성 문제와 새로운 가능성 탐구

Abstract

New media enables new communication environments and methods. Modern society is rapidly changing from an analog media to a digital media society. In the future society, where digital media is dominant, new forms of communication will emerge, causing various problems and bringing to another possibilities at the same time. In this context, this article will critically examine the form of communication and its authenticity in the digital media era that appeared in S. Jonze’s SF movie Her, and look at the new possibilities of communication. The director presents emotional goods, which express emotions of customers instead, or soothe their loneliness. There are letters of surrogate writers and artificial intelligence dialogue programs. These emotional products make us think in various angles about the authenticity of communication and which expressions of emotions are real or fake. The director also provides an opportunity to get a glimpse on the possibility of new communication through the forms of communication that can appear in the digital media age. At this time, Jones encourages the audience to participate in thinking rather than forcing his own opinions unilaterally. In this regard, the film Her itself is a message and an invitation to ask the audience for a synesthesic imagination and sympathy.