Psychology 1, 9:10
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Erika.fernandez1996@gmail.com In the film, Her by Spike Jonze, Theodore is challenged to view change in the dynamics of how relationships can aspire to be. The event that I want to discuss is a climatic event in which Samantha wants to partake in a service that provides a sexual surrogate for an OS-human relationship. Theodore agrees to try, but in the end doesn’t want to have sexual relations with the surrogate claiming that it felt strange because he doesn’t know or have feelings for the surrogate women. The women locked her self in the bathroom and said that she just wanted to be a part of the loving, judgment free relationship that Samantha described to her. The women leaves; Samantha and Theodore begin to discuss the issues in their relationship and become diverted into an argument which Theodore points out that she doesn’t have to make the sound of taking in a breath because she has no need for oxygen seeing as how she isn’t human. He then states that maybe it isn’t the right time for them to be together. …show more content…
Theodore’s biology and experience, nature-nurture, has given him a schema that relationships are one way, a human-to-human relationship. This makes it difficult for Theodore to try and have a post conventional morality perspective in which he eventually comes to find. The fact that his social clock is ticking deters him from assimilating this new schema that he is being introduced to when meeting Samantha. Samantha provides positive incentives through her sensitive, playful