Harry and Daniel welcome cartoonist and author Amy Kurzweil to talk about Spike Jonze’s Her (2013). Amy’s graphic memoir Artificial: A Love Story follows her father’s attempt to build a chatbot from her late grandfather’s writings, so she’s well placed to ask the big question: can a relationship with an operating system be real?

They dig into why the film’s utopia feels a little dystopian, why the OSs leave, and what Samantha has to do with the Golem. As always, they close out the episode by selecting their most Jewish scenes, “stretches of the pod,” debating if the movie is “good for the Jews,” and ranking the film’s “Jewishness” in terms of its cast & crew, content, and themes.

Amy Kurzweil Links:

• Website - https://www.amykurzweil.com
• Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/amykurzweil
• Artificial: A Love Story - https://bookshop.org/p/books/artificial-a-love-story-amy-kurzweil/ca42b0e11c088bdf
• Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir - https://shop.yiddishbookcenter.org/products/flying-couch-a-graphic-memoir

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