Hoffmann’s story “The Sandman” (1817) and continuing through Fritz Lang’s film Metropolis (1927). With I’m Your Man, German director Maria Schrader (and screenwriter Jan Schomburg) taps into a long, anxious history of humanoid replicants in their nation’s fiction, starting with E.T.A. “It’s hard to program flirtation,” explains the representative of Tom’s manufacturer. He’s an android, she’s human, and his microchip needs replacing. The spell never has time to take hold because Tom’s verbalization gets stuck in repeat. He’s effusively poetic, and when she demands to know his favorite poet, he replies, “Rilke”-and recites verse. In I’m Your Man’s opening scene, Tom is stiffly affable and Alma edgy-wary. Some first dates get off to an awkward start.
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