[GOOD MOVIES] Robot Dreams

A film with no dialogue, just music and quiet frames yet it says everything about loneliness, companionship, and love. The dog buys a robot to keep him company. They dance, share popcorn, watch sunsets. Until one day, the robot gets stuck on the beach, and the dog begins a wait that drifts across the seasons. And then there’s “September” playing, the same song but hitting completely different in every scene.

What struck me wasn’t the “epic love” we’re used to in movies, but the opposite - how love in real life is limited, imperfect, sometimes clumsy. I used to believe that if you loved someone enough, you would give everything, fight till the end. But the things I’ve gone through shifted that for me. Not every kind of love looks like sacrifice. Sometimes we just don’t have the ability or strength to love the way we imagine. It’s not about not loving. It’s about being human, flawed, and finite.

I saw a lot of reviews saying the dog’s a jerk for not doing more, for not saving the robot. But I feel like that’s exactly the point of the film. It’s always easy to judge when you’re watching from a third person view, but in reality the dog did the best he could and so do we. We’re all flawed, and sometimes even when we feel like we’ve given everything, it still doesn’t look enough. That’s the painful part. But it’s also the raw truth that the mistakes, the regrets, the lessons that cut deep enough so maybe we won’t repeat them in the next chapter.

And still, what’s so powerful about this film is how it shows meaning in the encounters themselves. The dog learned things, the robot changed in its own way, and they left pieces of each other behind. Maybe love isn’t about forever, but about how it shapes us, what it leaves in us.

That’s probably why this film hit me so hard. Relationship, friendship, even family that it made me look at how I see and carry things. Everything will ends itself eventually, and most of the time it’s out of our control. Life keeps moving forward, no matter how much it hurts. Separation always leaves the deepest lessons. I used to laugh when people said “love makes you do crazy things,” but I can’t deny it happened to me too. Mistakes, regrets, things I tried to fix that only stirred up more and all of it. But that’s life, isn’t it? You make stupid mistakes, people judge and there's nothing else we can do except carry that and live on our life haha.

In New York, the sunset paints the streets in gold. As the familiar sound of “September” plays, the robot and the dog dance from afar, a dance of memories, a dance of farewell, a dance of letting go. How to let go is a lesson only we can teach ourselves. Each of us must finish that unfinished dance within our own hearts and, in time, find the courage to step away from the beach.

If love can’t cross oceans, if reality forces a pause, the real question isn’t how much we gave after parting, it’s how we find our way back to ourselves. And I hope every robot that can’t leave the beach will meet the raccoon, or become the raccoon themselves.

If you’re reading this, I hope you can be the person you want to be, and that I can keep finding myself too. Maybe one day, we’ll both finish that unfinished dance in our hearts and finally walk away from the beach. I love you and take care.

🎵 Byyyeeeayee, dancin’ in September 🎵