I'm Your Man

Director: Maria Schrader
Year Released: 2021
Rating: 1.5

Alma (Maren Eggert), an archeologist by trade, is asked to spend three weeks with a humanoid robot named Tom (Dan Stevens, flexing his multilingual skills) - who was designed to cater to her every whim - and give her opinion as to whether or not human beings should cohabitate with artificial "people."  I'm guessing Schrader intended this to be something of a light, "romantic" film but its bits needed greasing up (it's both heavy and freezing cold), and the plot arc goes, naturally, from her being repelled by Tom to slowly warming up to having sex with him ... and then rejecting him (for not being "real") ... and then wanting him back.  I like how she included a scene with a man who's absolutely enraptured by his female humanoid, but the differences between the sexes couldn't be more different.  I jotted down a single churlish note for this that I should have tossed away but I'm feeling frisky: "Give any woman something 'perfect' and she'll find a problem with it." (Feel free to boo, I can't hear you.)