Anyways, enjoy!
I'm here is a short movie directed by Spike Jonze available online only. It has a connection to Absolut vodka, but I'm not really sure how. I presume they funded the project, as to why I can't work out, as far as I could tell there was absolutely no product placement or sense of it being an advert for the whole movie. About the only time you even know it has anything to do with the vodka is when you see the 'Absolut' in the movie title or on the trailer.
What the movie itself is, is well... a difficult question. It sells itself as a love story but with the way it comes across, it feels much more menacing than romantic.
Sheldon is a robot, there is allusions in the story that a robot is merely a racial metaphor when an old lady begins to scream at the main female robot love interest about how she's not meant to drive a car. Or I may just be looking to much into this. Sheldon becomes entangled with this women by chance. Then the woman begins to fall to pieces, literally. Thanks to Jonze never explaining why the female robot (whose name escapes me) is falling to pieces, the fact all her friends seem like druggies and each scene where the fembot falls to bits come across so menacing the movie almost becomes sinister. Perhaps a snidey comment at women only wanting your money. In this case your robotic limbs. I left this movie feeling troubled by the fact Sheldon was just a head and the woman had a brand new, working body. It didn't make me happy. I can't truly express why I feel so troubled though, I admit. Maybe there just wasn't enough time to establish the belief that Sheldon had been with this girl long enough to care for her enough to give her his whole body. Or maybe Jonze always wanted it to see like Sheldon was taken for a ride and he'd known this women a short amount of time. I guess I need to watch it again to decide.
I'm not sure how much money this film cost to make, I know little about it, and caught the advert for it by chance but the robots look really really good. They look real. Even when the fembot begins to break, it never seems to look dodgy, like so much CGI (which I presume was used) does nowadays.
The worst part of this movie is that even with the menace and the robots it's such a cliched little romance movie. Even in places, a cliched sci-fi robot movie. And thanks to it being a short, there are certain details missing (like why she is falling apart) that really needed to be there. The narrative often feels to jump, to save time obviously, but it jumps often too far apart. Giving the narrative a jerky, random feel. I like fast moving stories, but I don't like stories which just cut out big chunks to appear like they are moving fast.
Wow this is a rather short review. I guess I can just use the fact that it was short as an excuse for why this review sucks so bad. I mean the movie looks really nice and feels really weird. And that's awesome, even if this is kinda arty and pretentious.
So should you watch it? Its free and online. So why wouldn't you?
Think About It!
-Locke.
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