It was poignant and heartbreaking. The end was kind of inevitable, it was one 'person' outgrowing another, a conclusion that was really inescapable from the very beginning of the romance. It's a modern day tragedy because none of the participants were being unreasonable. They were in love, but each had a different conception of what that was and each tried to meet their conception of it to the best of their abilities.

One of the things I took away from it is that, right now, there are probably potentially thousands and thousands (well, maybe less) of people that I could fall in love with and, likewise, there would be thousands of people each of those thousands could fall in love with. But we're limited in ways Samantha is not.

I think we can take her at her word. She's not being dishonest, she loves Theodore. As an outsider, I can appreciate that being tied to just Theodore isn't possible for someone (something?) as vast and beyond our understanding as Samantha. She literally perceives the world in a way that Theodore can never experience, in the same way a blind person can't really relate to love at first sight even though one might be able to very accurately describe the feeling of it.

But conversely, neither can Samantha experience the world as limited as Theodore's is due to his limitations. I think the scene with the surrogate really drove home how alienating the relationship must feel at times to the both of them. Theodore's desire for exclusivity is a very human one. Even though I said earlier that me and my potential partner could fall in love with a whole range of people, I would be aghast if she came to me and told me that she has fallen in love with someone else, but that it didn't make her love me less or that her love for another did not change in any way her love for me. But that knowledge would absolutely change how I experienced her love; I couldn't help that any more than I can change how a painting looks to my eyes or how freshly baked bread smells.

I loved the film, I found it to be very sad but also very uplifting. I got out of a very long relationship the year before, and the movie helped me come to terms with it. Like Theodore, I'd like to believe that even though it ended, it taught me something about myself and the love that I wanted and the love that I was capable of giving.

I'm a bit under slept, and I think I could've expressed my thoughts a bit more coherently, but I hope you got the gist of it.