Should you’re seeking to watch a multi-billion yr love story unfold over 92 minutes this January, “Love Me” is the film for you.
Written and directed by married filmmaking duo Andy and Sam Zuchero, “Love Me” stars Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun as two AI personas inhabiting a buoy and a satellite tv for pc, respectively, who study to fall in love whereas left alone on earth collectively following humanity’s demise. The movie, which debuted on the 2024 Sundance Movie Pageant, combines a number of types of animation with live-action filmmaking to supply an optimistic take a look at what AI’s future may deliver.
Talking to IndieWire at Sundance, the 2 filmmakers defined that they noticed the mission as a possibility to painting AI as a expertise that would amplify humanity, fairly than exchange it.
“This in the end isn’t about AI. It’s about us seeing by the lens of AI, after all,” Andy Zuchero stated. “It gave us a possibility as artists to have a look at who we’re proper now with out all the luggage that we usually deliver to it. We’re trying on the web and humanity with harmless eyes. However so far as how we wished to depict AI, clearly we agree that there should be guardrails. Nevertheless, we now have an amazing hope for this subsequent chapter of expertise.”
Sam Zuchero added that sure conversations about AI’s potential to disrupt the leisure business miss the truth that the expertise may be extraordinarily helpful in different spheres of human society.
“It cures sicknesses, it helps us with effectivity … it’s additionally serving to individuals who lose family members,” she stated. “In leisure, we regularly take a look at AI as an Different, one thing that may homicide us, kill us. That’s a really commonplace strategy to AI for leisure, at the least. It could possibly be one thing the place we may take a look at ourselves by it as a result of it recreates it, it’s like a mirror for us. How we deal with AI is how we deal with others. If we wish this factor we’ve created to be a profit to us, then we must be it in a constructive gentle and treating it kindly.”
A Bleecker Avenue launch, “Love Me” opens in choose theaters on Friday, January 31. Watch the trailer under.