There have been many films and television series that have investigated conscious AI, consciousness and identity, but there has rarely been such a unique view of those themes Love meThe first feature film by directors Andy and Sam Zuchero. The film premiered last year on Sundance, where it won the prestigious Alfred P. Sloan -play film prize and now gets a theatrical release.
(Some spoilers below.)
The film was determined long after people and all other life forms have disappeared from the earth, so that only remains of our global civilization are left behind. Kristen Stewart plays one of those remains: a little yellow smart buoy that we see caught in an abandoned landscape for the first time in ice. The buoy has reached a rudimentary sentience, sufficient to respond to the recorded message that is emitted by a satellite (Steven Yeun) overhead to detect new rescue forms that can appear. The buoy is enthusiastic to have a friend – even a friend who is in fact a refined space chatbot – the enormous online database of information about humanity on earth that the satellite offers. The Homt on YouTube influencers Deja and Liam (also played by Stewart and Yeun) and presents itself to the satellite as a rescue form called me.
Over time – a lot of time – “Meet” the buoy and satellite (now by IAM) in virtual space and compete against humanoid avatars. They are becoming more and more advanced in their consciousness, exchanging eccentric inspiring memes, who re -introduce the “Date Night” of the YouTubers and eventually fall in love. But the course of true love is not always smooth, not even for the last conscious creatures on earth – especially since I was not honest with IAM about her true nature.
In the core, Love me Is less pure sci-fi and more a post-apocalyptic love story about transformation. “We really wanted to make a movie so that everyone felt big and small at the same time,” Sam Zuchero told Ars. “So the timetable is huge, 13 billion years of the universe. But we wanted to feel the love story in the core of the core of the core, because the first love feels so often.”
