‘Love Me’ film finds unconventional lovers on quest for that means

LOS ANGELES, – For “Love Me” actor Kristen Stewart, the general message of the movie stays a thriller.

“I am undecided what the film’s attempting to say finally,” the “Twilight” actor mentioned.

She believes, nonetheless, the movie could also be asserting that nobody desires to be remoted they usually usually search to be like each other. “After all, we wish to be not so alone,” she added.

“Love Me” is a futuristic drama about an existential romance between a wise buoy, portrayed by Stewart, and a satellite tv for pc, portrayed by “Beef” actor Steven Yeun, as they attempt to grow to be extra human by delving into archives of modern-day social media lengthy after humanity has died out.

The buoy and the satellite tv for pc, who identify themselves Me and Iam, mildew their identities by emulating an influencer couple they uncover referred to as Deja and Liam, additionally performed by Stewart and Yeun, whose lives seem excellent.

“Love Me,” distributed by Bleeker Road, arrives in theaters on Friday and is written and directed by spouse and husband Sam and Andrew Zuchero, who’re first-time function movie administrators.

“They are not attempting to be faux, they’re attempting to be actual,” Yeun mentioned, referring to Me and Iam’s tacky expressions of romance.

Me and Iam are hundreds of miles away at first of the movie however finally share house as avatars earlier than evolving into one thing extra human.

For Stewart and Yeun, it meant spending months in motion-capture fits taking part in their ever-evolving avatars from undeveloped renderings to life like human beings.

Yeun was unaware that he could be doing any movement seize, so it was a little bit of a shock to him.

“There was no option to get round it. You are like, ‘Yeah, I am sporting this bizarre bodysuit,’ and that is simply what it’s,” he mentioned.

Sam Zuchero hopes the movie will make individuals look at how social media has modified humanity.

“Previous to the web, individuals noticed you in several methods, in several spheres of your life. So, you may pull from these completely different spheres to create self. However now, self is like in a single space and it is one factor,” she mentioned.

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