ME

2024

Animation / Comedy / Drama / Musical / Sci-Fi

3
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 360 360

technology trauma musical adult animation existentialism short film

Plot summary

A musical odyssey about generational trauma and the retreat of humanity into itself.

Director

Don Hertzfeldt Photo
Don Hertzfeldt

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199.94 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
12 hr 21 min
Seeds 7
370.89 MB
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English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
12 hr 21 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by 6 / 10

A death laden rumination on human obsession and ego

Filmmaker Don Hertzfeldt's 2024 animated short film is described as a 'musical odyssey about man and technology'. Minimalist animation develops into something rather more layered as the film progresses to the perhaps ominous and symbolic sound of drums (and memorable operatic arias) in an existential and possibly even autobiographical film. A poignant, melancholy, death laden rumination on human obsession and ego.
Reviewed by 6 / 10

Abstract and melancholic

As far as Don Hertzfeldt's work goes, ME is like an ensemble combining the themes that came before - the technological satire of The World of Tomorrow, the existentialism of It's Such a Beautiful Day and the surreal horror of, well, everything he's done. Yet it's still an anomaly as it's more of an extended abstract music video than a traditional narrative with dialogue. The experiment allows him to play with more evocative imagery rather than cohesive scenarios, which shows up in all the expressive cityscapes, time travel tunnels (if that's what they were), the breakdown of civilisation, the massive eye sibling black hole thing and nervous system man made out of all the world's networked experiences. It's all quite memorable, but not so clear how it all fits together coherently, and often feels excessive with Don trying to stuff in every single idea he could think of.
Reviewed by 8 / 10

The most fatalist one yet

All of Hertzfeldt's work has a poignancy to them. In that poignancy, there is a little goofiness, introspection, sentimentality, absurdism, even a little horror. ME, for some reason feels the most monochromatic. Emotionally speaking, ME feels like Hertzfeldt's most apocalyptic and all-encompassing work yet. Even the "nervous system person" walking awkwardly through lava doesn't feel goofy. It feels too evocative, - that stripped down, naked, hunk of electrical signals bound together by screens - too dark.That's why in more ways than one, this is also Don Hertzfeldt's best. Whatever the baby eye represents, I think there is a very eerie feeling of darkness in infantilising, (as well as reconciling) the presence of a creature who continuously surveils (cue dystopia metaphor). So much good imagery that sticks in your heard with this. But hey that's true for "beautiful day", "world of tomorrow" too. I'm just gonna have to rewatch his old repertoire again I guess.
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