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By Jeffrey M. Anderson
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Unusual, millennia-spanning sci-fi romance with some sex.
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Love Me
What's the Story?
In LOVE ME, it's several centuries in the future, and humanity has been wiped out. One day, a smart buoy, stuck in a frozen ocean, is thawed out, and the sun recharges her battery. Every so often, a satellite zooms by overhead, saying "Welcome to Earth!" The buoy practices speaking and strikes up a conversation with the satellite. The satellite provides her with data about Earth, and the buoy becomes fascinated with an old Instagram channel, "Deja & Liam"; in particular, a video about their date night. The buoy proposes that she and the satellite take a kind of animated human form, adopt their own names, "Me" (Kristen Stewart) and "Iam" (Steven Yeun), and try to do their own date night. Things evolve and change, and the two beings must try to find ever more complex ways of communicating. Cut to a billion years later, and the story continues.
Is It Any Good?
It's difficult to describe this strange, millennia-spanning sci-fi romance, let alone decide whether it's actually good, but, ultimately, the two leads make it worth a look. Any attempt to explain Love Me could result in frustration and maybe even annoyance, especially when you get to the part in which they turn into animated characters. And watching the characters try to reenact Deja and Liam's date night again and again might send some viewers over the edge. Not to mention that there's a large chasm between the cosmic events going on in the universe and the lives of these two little characters, which makes it all a bit hard to grasp. (How exactly would one pass the time, alone, for one billion years?)
Yet, looking back on Love Me after watching it, what remains is the characters and their skilled performers. Me is painfully looking for an identity (she initially lies to the satellite about being a life form), ready to try anything that comes along but too afraid to look within. Meanwhile, Iam seems tuned in to things that seem authentic—things that happen in the moment and are true. Both of these themes are very relatable, even if the movie itself sometimes isn't.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about how Love Me deals with sex. What emotions are conveyed? Is it tasteful? Is there trust? Consent? Why is that important?
What are the movie's themes? What kinds of things are the buoy and the satellite trying to learn? What do they learn in the end?
What's interesting about post-apocalyptic stories? What can we learn from them about our own time?
Why do you think the filmmakers chose to make the characters animated in the second section of the movie?
How do the characters demonstrate communication? Why is it sometimes so hard to be ourselves?
Movie Details
- In theaters : January 31, 2025
- On DVD or streaming : February 18, 2025
- Cast : Kristen Stewart , Steven Yeun
- Directors : Sam Zuchero , Andrew Zuchero
- Inclusion Information : Female Movie Director(s) , Female Movie Actor(s) , Gay Movie Actor(s) , Asian Movie Actor(s)
- Studio : Bleecker Street
- Genre : Science Fiction
- Topics : Robots
- Run time : 92 minutes
- MPAA rating :
- MPAA explanation : some sexuality/nudity
- Last updated : September 18, 2025
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