daft punk's electroma felt like it could have been trimmed down. significantly. cut into, perhaps, three music videos. for example:

1) robots travel and become human
2) robots fail at becoming human
3) robots travel, decide existence no longer has meaning and self-destruct

there is beautiful cinematography here, but it dwells and wanders at length for no explicable reason. for instance, the car scene at the beginning is shot from nearly every conceivable angle which begins to feel academic and pointless. the reason i propose the film is really only a couple of music videos is because the actual running time of 74 min is forced. all of the extraneous shots seem like attempts to extend the film beyond a more reasonable fifteen minutes.

at times electroma reminded me of the maligned brown bunny - but gallo used the extended travel shots to give us a sense of journey (personal/literal), whereas the robots' journey feels, well, nothing more than mechanical. at times the electroma felt like a car commercial with all of its emphasis on shiny bits and technical camera work.

would i watch this again? no. would i recommend it? sadly, probably not.