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‘Love Me’ Review: Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun Stare Madly Into One Another’s AIs in Robot-Love Rom-Com
Sam and Andy Zuchero's stunningly constructed, if overcomplicated sci-fi fable is best when human stars Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun are onscreen.
The eccentric rom-com takes place in a time after humans have gone extinct, when the surviving machines’ only references are a massive hard drive’s worth of data combed from search engines and social media sites. Once the connection between Me and Iam has been established, the Zucheros provide a virtual space where the rest of their interactions can occur — first a rudimentary search engine, then a virtual-reality apartment, modeled after an influencer couple named Deja and Liam (played by Stewart and Yeun) that Me sees on her Instagram page. Me steals Deja’s identity and presents it as her own, which introduces a high-concept version of a tired rom-com cliché: the built-on-a-lie trope, where one party assumes the relationship will crumble if they come clean.
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