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Love Me Asks Too Many Questions
Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun star in an emo version of Wall-E that is furiously literal-minded.
They choose sim-style avatars of themselves, and live a virtual life of endless date nights, Blue Apron-sponcon dinner prep, and performative cuddling. Love Me begins quite promisingly, with directors Sam and Andy Zuchero effectively telling their story visually while finding a bleak poetry in the buoy’s lonely, frozen reverie and its initially brief, melancholy encounters with the satellite. The repetitive, snake-eating-its-tail quality of the dialogue doesn’t do the actors any favors either, while the purposefully janky animated passages flatten their performances — perhaps intentionally, since these characters are just discovering complexity, slowly realizing the phoniness of their lives.
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