Hasta La Creative!

Let’s talk about how amazing this film is. Simply stunning. You are immediately captivated by the story of this woman and her assisted-living robot nurse– a Bionically Engineered Nurse, or B.E.N. This poor woman lives a lonely quiet life. And the robot, well-meaning though he is, simply doesn’t understand her needs, ignorant of her nuances, oblivious to her needs. Only able to suggest food, tv and dancing by rote. And that’s when at the very end, the message from Saint-Vincent-De-Paul quietly appears: Today, companion robots are being introduced to assist lonely people. At Society of Saint-Vincent-De-Paul, we think that only human being (sic) can help in fighting loneliness.

Stunning choice of music–Canadian folksinger Bonnie Dobson’s haunting “Morning Dew,” from 1969.

I normally criticize long-form as desperately needing scissors, but there is not one wasted frame in this one. Great freaking job.