I'm Your Man

I'm Your Man

Alma is a scientist at Berlin's famous Pergamon Museum. In order to obtain research funds for her studies, she accepts an offer to participate in an extraordinary experiment. For three weeks, she must live with a humanoid robot with artificial intelligence designed to allow it to morph into that of her ideal life partner. Enter Tom, a machine in human form, created to make her happy.

  • Released: 2021-07-01
  • Runtime: 105 minutes
  • Genre: Comedy, Romance
  • Stars: Maren Eggert, Dan Stevens, Sandra Hüller, Hans Löw, Annika Meier, Jürgen Tarrach, Wolfgang Hübsch, Henriette Richter-Röhl, Monika Oschek, Falilou Seck, Karolin Oesterling, Marlene Sophie Haagen, Victor Pape-Thies, Inga Busch, Amal Keller, Mignon Remé, Gabriel Munoz Munoz, Franz Schmidt, Christoph Glaubacker, Sebastian Schwarz, Annie Kathleen Trettin
  • Director: Maria Schrader
 Comments
  • Movie_Rating_n_Ranking - 4 September 2023
    A deflated balloon...
    This film raises an interesting question, but it fails to hold its own in its almost two-hour run. Very soon, in its first act, the script already shows weaknesses and ends up as a flat, boring story that triumphantly avoids the deep theme that hooks us in its initial synopsis. We end up seeing a pointless melodramatic romance between two characters who have nothing to do with each other.

    The direction, photography and sound work are quite brief and austere. They have a decent level that only serves as a tray to tell a story. The performances are decent, but as flat as the script itself.

    Anyway. This film falls by the wayside like a deflated balloon that could have been a good source for great debates.
  • storm84 - 3 February 2023
    Interesting without ever wowing
    There's an intractable problem in our society in that many people who seek love and companionship fail to find someone. I'm Your Man is an exploration of the coming time when AI and robotics will be advanced enough to fill that void. When robots can be programmed to be a compatible partner, what will it mean for humanity? Will they just fill a necessary role for the loveless / unlovable, or will they negatively impact on what we see as a healthy relationship?

    I'm Your Man tells the tale of Dr. Alma Felser (Maren Eggert), a single middle-aged researcher, as she reluctantly trials "dating" a companion robot (Dan Stevens) to ethically evaluate the technology. It's a thoughtful and sombre look at relationships, companionship, the fear of loneliness, and how technology may come to fulfill those needs. The film is treading familiar territory, though its novelty is in telling the story from a perspective the genre too often neglects.
  • geekoto - 17 May 2022
    Will we ever treat robots as humans?
    The movie is absolutely wonderful, deep and very optimistic.

    The movie tried to explain how our future relationships with robots will be, I didn't see the AI out of control, the movie explained if we're gonna live a happy life with them, even if we have a full control of their algos, in the middle of the movie we saw that Alma told Tom when she was drunk that she tries to treat him like a human but she couldn't, there will always be a deep vague felling towards him even of his very well developed algorithms and that means she will never be herself or act normally, those feelings starts fading out at end when she recognizes - especially when she meet the old man with the robot lady - that it doesn't matter what the vague feelings really are, as long as he made her happy, because the important thing in the experiment is to give her what she wants and that what she thinks everyone wants.

    The message that I understand is that everyone in this life deserve a better relationship, so we cannot benefit from the future AI just in the economic fields, but we can make them our partners as long as they make us happy.
  • bettinagh-51115 - 17 January 2022
    What does it Mean to be Human?
    Okay fine, it's a hackneyed question in film and every other art form. It's just that I'm Your Man explores the issue extraordinarily well.

    This sweet, sometimes biting and sometimes funny, very smart and observant film is just the ticket for these lonely, decisive days in Western History.

    The film is superb in every aspect; script, direction, score, framing, storytelling, casting and performances.

    Yes, it's subtitled in German but about a Quarter of the language is either German words English uses or English words used in German...after about 5 minutes, your brain forgets it is reading ( SO much better than dubbing- brains don't get past dubbing as easily)

    Best film of 2021 I've seen yet.