Love Me is a post-apocalyptic film that facilities round a love story between non-human characters because it takes place in a future the place humanity has died out. Kristen Stewart stars within the movie as a buoy floating within the ocean and Steven Yeun performs the position of the satellite tv for pc orbiting the Earth. In a brand new interview, the actors mirrored on their respective roles on this debut characteristic from administrators Sam and Andy Zuchero.
Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun talk about how Love Me explores humanity by means of a buoy and a satellite tv for pc
Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun spoke about how Love Me delves into human points utilizing non-human characters as mediums. Within the film, a climate buoy accesses a satellite tv for pc’s immense reminiscence and learns a couple of social media celeb named Deja and her husband, Liam, and creates a character named “Me.” The Buoy then begins calling the satellite tv for pc “Iam.”
“There’s like a congruency that ties us all collectively, like even the folks that will appear to be coming from completely totally different sides of the earth,” Stewart informed CBR about her character. “And so, I believe that the buoy might be nothing aside from me. And after I say ‘me,’ I actually imply me, as a result of my character can also be known as ‘Me.’ But it surely’s simply I can’t be anybody else aside from myself.”
Love Me explores consciousness, id, and different ideas typically related to folks by means of its primary characters. It does this not essentially by anthropomorphizing them, however by drawing consideration to their sentience. Requested if he thought the satellite tv for pc was all the time sentiment, Yeun said that he didn’t know, earlier than including, “I believe. I didn’t attempt to ponder an excessive amount of about it. If something, the expertise itself as we shot sequentially was sort of revealing because it went. And I don’t know if I obtained to know what consciousness and consciousness is from that angle, however I did assume at first this satellite tv for pc is pure operate. And it thrives on being [just] ‘operate.’”
Based on Yeun, the buoy’s arrival into the satellite tv for pc’s existence finally helps the latter escape “stagnation” and achieve freedom.
Love Me had its world premiere ultimately 12 months’s Sundance Movie Competition on January 19, 2024, earlier than releasing in US theaters on January 31, 2025.