The Heart Machine (2014)

The Heart Machine: Directed by Zachary Wigon. With John Gallagher Jr., Kate Lyn Sheil, Louisa Krause, David Call. A man begins to suspect that his long-distance girlfriend whom he met on the Internet has been living in the same city as him, and he sets out looking for her.

“The writer director originally made a 17 minute short on this with some of the same cast.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 itu0026#39;s the same 17 minute film dragged out to 85 minutes with nothing new to add. Itu0026#39;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. Youu0026#39;re supposed to be bored and baffled I guess. At any rate the dialog is weak and stupid because itu0026#39;s supposed to be real. But who wants to overhear random snippets of other peopleu0026#39;s lives? It does not a movie make. Of the two main characters, one is an obsessive paranoid and the otheru0026#39;s a sociopath. But again thatu0026#39;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 youu0026#39;ll be left wondering why this didnu0026#39;t stay a 17 short.”