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Apr 22, 2011

Film Review: I'm Here

Futuristic lover

I'm Here (2009)

Overall Score: 79%
Certified: Trumpeter Swan    
Score Breakdown:
Performance: 70%   Plot: 75%   Script: 70%   Visuals: 95%   Music: 90%
I'm Here (2010)
Director: Spike Jonze

Writer(s): Spike Jonze
Producer(s): Natalie Farrey (Associate Producer), Vincent Landay (Producer)
Distributor(s): -
Country: United States
Language: English
Starring: Andrew Garfield, Sienna Guillory
Studio(s): Method Studios
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 29 Minutes

In Where the Wild Things Are (2009), based on the children's book by Martin Sendak, Spike Jonze created an isolate island inhibited by monsters. In this movie, I'm Here (2010), he created an alternate universe where robots and humans live together, coexisting, in the face of the Earth. It's not a futuristic movie, as it is set in Los Angeles, present time, but the movie is futuristic in characterization and moral implications of the people where their way of thinking seems more advanced than our present time. I'm Here is a film written by Spike himself, and is based on another children's book called The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein.

Spike Jonze is great at creating different whole new worlds. In this movie, it's quite similar to his last work Where the Wild Things Are. It's a new experience, in the same territory. Shelby (Andrew Garfield; his character's named after Shel Silverstein himself), a shy, lonely, and isolated robot is living a pretty boring life in a parallel world where human lives with robots. Sheldon is a pretty normal robot, the one who live life by the rules but live a dull life. Soon, he finds a free-spirited female robot, Francesca (Sienna Guillory), and breaks him out of his solitary life by providing him with love and adventures. However, it comes with a price where Sheldon must sacrifice something to acquire his great love-protecting the one thing worthy for him to fight for.

The movie was funded by Absolut Vodka (thus, the misspelling of absolute in the tagline). The movie does not have any distributors, so it was not distributed to every theatres, but only some and premiered in the Sundance Film Festival. But luckily for us, this movie is available online on its official site and plays once every a certain amount of time.

The movie is a very hippie movie. It's very creative, in terms of its artistic development. It's an indie robot love-and-loss story, so compassionate, so sweet and heartfelt but haunting with sadness and tragedy. It's a story about sacrifice, for Sheldon, where as the lesser 'he' becomes, the stronger, the more 'they' become. The music and the visuals contributes in giving its endearing and touching feeling. It shows the small moments, the type that you will wanna treasure forever. I actually don't know how to feel when the movie ends. It's not a happy movie, it's not a sad movie, all I feel was just numbness and it still creeps inside me, long after I watched the movie. I found something humane, from something not human, who turns out to be human after all.
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Posted by Ugly Duckling at Friday, April 22, 2011
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