The Heart Machine (2014) on Netflix
Cody and Virginia meet through a dating site and start a long-distance relationship over Skype. She says she lives in Germany, but details of her story do not add up.
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- Netflix3.8/5
- IMDb5.8/10728 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes95%
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Plot summary
Cody and Virginia start talking on a dating site, then move to Skype, where their relationship stays. Virginia says she is in Germany and will be in the New York area six months from now, when the two of them plan to meet. Over time Cody questions that account: small things do not match, among them the sirens of emergency vehicles, which sound North American. He thinks he sees her on a subway train in New York. He stays back and mentions in their next call that he spotted her double. Listening for background noise during their conversations, Cody works out where she might be and begins visiting those places.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Heart Machine (2014)
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- The film's Skype conversations were shot with the two actors placed in different rooms of the same house, filming their chats through the application itself, and internet outages and software failures forced several scenes to be reshot.
- Zachary Wigon got the idea for The Heart Machine after one of his own relationships ended: it had gone well while it temporarily moved to Skype but ended once the couple reunited and he realized they had drifted apart, which led him to imagine a character who prefers Skype-based relationships.
- Zachary Wigon estimated that 10 to 15% of The Heart Machine was improvised, and he encouraged the actors to improvise during the film's Skype conversations.
