The Heart Machine

2014 "Where do you find love?"
The Heart Machine
5.9| 1h25m| NR| en| More Info
Released: 24 October 2014 Released
Producted By: Parts & Labor
Country: United States of America
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A man begins to suspect that his long-distance girlfriend, whom he met online but has never met in person, has been living in the same city the whole time and sets out to find her.

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bettywilson I very seldom have ever had a really bad reaction to a movie...but this one did it for me! I ended up speeding it up...morbidly curious as to how it would end. This movie was so miserably dark and depressing that any 'lesson' that could have been had in regards to using the internet for 'romance' was totally lost... Granted, it may be a good idea to 'teach' people to be cautious and sensible when it comes to searching the internet for romance... But these characters...especially that of the girl's...was so emotionally a total wreck, that it was a poorly presented lesson. Yes, there are some sick minds out there...but instead of this movie showing the dangers of internet romance...it seemed to only emphasize the disturbed and emotionally needy mind of the young woman.
xhidden99 The writer director originally made a 17 minute short on this with some of the same cast. Clearly someone paid him to bulk this up to a feature length work. Problem is it's the same 17 minute film dragged out to 85 minutes with nothing new to add. It's slow and dull and leans heavily on mumblecore and hipster clichés of random dialog and in medias res scenes that have no beginning or context. You're supposed to be bored and baffled I guess. At any rate the dialog is weak and stupid because it's supposed to be real. But who wants to overhear random snippets of other people's lives? It does not a movie make. Of the two main characters, one is an obsessive paranoid and the other's a sociopath. But again that's supposed to be uber cool in hipster Bushwick. BTW is Bushwick really 100% upper class white kids? Well anyway as others have noted the plot is very simple the characters are all extremely odd and the whole thing is totally pointless. Add to that a lot of shakycam and closeups of phone and laptop screens and you'll be left wondering why this didn't stay a 17 short.
Nikita Chan the trailer looks cool, and my boyfriend and I watched it, I stayed through the movie only because my bf wanted to see whether the ending will be something surprising. But no, I would like to say this is the worst movie I've watched for awhile. I think this movie totally waist one and an half hour in my life. Its very slow, boring, and no deep meaning at all. Everything you can see from the movie is something already done before.You will see this have high rating in rotten tomatoes and shows up in apple TV. Just let you know, I saw apple brand in the movie for many times. From now on i think I won't trust what apple TV recommended anymore.
JvH48 Saw this at the Leiden Film Festival 2014 (LIFF), where it was part of the official American Indie competition. I was disappointed, to say the least: meager plot, nothing in it worthy to take our time for nearly one and a half hour. Though the final scene clarified all, including reasoning and conclusion of the two main characters, it all boiled down to nothing relevant. I cannot find more words to say something about this movie, but at least this text now has enough lines to satisfy IMDb.On a final note: The whole chase seemed redundant to me, as there are several technical ways to backtrack someones Internet addresses and phone numbers and pinpoint the country where they are located. But that is the computer nerd speaking here, thereby completely spoiling the plot. In other words, I assume that I do not belong to the target group, who may be interested in the romantic aspects of the story and consider the technicalities as mere tapestry. Most of the reviews I saw focus on the new ways we have to build a romantic relationship by virtue of new ways to communicate with each other, but I don't think this movie will teach you anything new or otherwise thought provoking.