{"id":1594,"date":"2026-06-11T04:37:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T04:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2026-06-11T04:37:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T04:37:21","slug":"here-im-alive-review-a-moody-docu-style-ensemble-drama-burrows-deep-into-the-big-apples-digital-underground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=1594","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Here I\u2019m Alive\u2019 Review: A Moody, Docu-Style Ensemble Drama Burrows Deep Into the Big Apple\u2019s Digital Underground"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tOne of the paradoxes about movies set in the digital age is that most of us now spend the majority of our time staring at screens, which is probably the last thing anyone actually wants to watch on another screen.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=1592\">Tim Allen Blames \u2018Home Improvement\u2019 Reboot Holdup on Onscreen Sons\u2019 \u201cPersonality Problems\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tFilmmakers such as Timur Bekmambetov, who\u2019s produced a handful of genre-driven \u201cscreenlife\u201d flicks, including <em>Unfriended <\/em>and <em>Searching<\/em>, have attempted to incorporate that phenomenon into the aesthetic of the films themsleves, posing intriguing challenges for directors forced to limit the action to a single virtual display. But generally speaking, movies about people stuck in the digital vortex can be a bit of a drag to sit through, failing to offer the kind of escape many of us watch films for in the first place.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tHere I&#8217;m Alive\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<div>\n<span>The Bottom Line<\/span><br \/>\n<span><\/p>\n<p>\tNew York, I love you but you&#8217;re bringing me down.<br \/>\n\t<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<strong>Venue:<\/strong> Tribeca Festival (U.S. Narrative Competition)<br \/><strong>Cast:<\/strong> Cheyenne Gallagher, Eddie Torrenegra, Caleb Zuzga, Krystaly Figueroa, Emira D\u2019Spain<br \/><strong>Director:<\/strong> Joshua Z Weinstein<br \/><strong>Screenwriters:<\/strong> Joshua Z Weinstein, Brian Perkins<br \/>\n<span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1 hour 21 minutes\t\t\t<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n\tWriter-director Joshua Z Weinstein\u2019s docu-style second feature, <em>Here I\u2019m Alive<\/em>, is a screenlife movie of sorts, although it expands that concept into an ensemble piece set during one long and gloomy night in New York City. Following four characters, most of them glued to their phones or monitors for long stretches of time, it offers a realistic view of what it\u2019s like to be young and financially strapped in the Big Apple right now, where online transactions and communications have supplanted doing things IRL.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tEven when they\u2019re not doomscrolling, the people in <em>Here I\u2019m Alive <\/em>look like they\u2019re floating in a pixelated haze \u2014 as if what matters most to them exists somewhere up in the cloud rather than down on the sidewalk. That\u2019s surely true for many 20-somethings in our day and age, especially after the 2020 pandemic took a chunk out of their best teenage years. But that doesn\u2019t necessarily make for great drama, nor for something that\u2019s even enjoyable to look at it. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tWeinstein, who also serves as DP, gives his film a moody, noirish look closer to 1976 than to 2026. He also captures his ethnically diverse cast with plenty of compassion. And yet none of that prevents this short feature, which chronicles several characters caught in the digital doldrums, from becoming a rather staid experience.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAfter starting out in the doc world, Weinstein showed how well he could immerse himself in a specific NYC community with his 2017 debut, <em>Menashe<\/em>, a moving small-scale drama performed in Yiddish and set in the Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods of Brooklyn. The director applies a similar approach to <em>Here I\u2019m Alive<\/em>, whose depiction of the city\u2019s online underground feels so authentic it could have been a documentary as well. And perhaps it should have been, because the dramatic states are otherwise low here \u2014 as are the cinematic stakes in a movie that mostly confines itself to screens and tight spaces.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=1590\">Why Hollywood\u2019s Unions Didn\u2019t Put Up a Fight With Studios This Year<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tWorking with a group of non-professional actors, all of them convincingly playing characters based in part on their own lives, Weinstein weaves his young cast into a <em>Short Cuts<\/em>-style structure that tracks a quartet of people who vaguely cross paths in the city between the hours of 6 p.m. and midnight.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe protagonist of sorts is Majora (Cheyenne Gallagher), an avid gamer with a major case of agoraphobia that keeps him shut inside a Queens digital den for most of the movie. While some people \u2014 including billionaire guru Marc Andreessen, whom we see in an interview clip at the start of the film \u2014 may see such online purgatory as a paradigm of progress, Majora is aware of his issues and spends his time helping kids in similar situations, especially a fellow New Yorker (Alex Fox) contemplating suicide.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMajora\u2019s tale frames a narrative that hops between other people his age scraping by in the naked city, finding both solace and grief in constant connectivity: There\u2019s Krystaly (Krystaly Figueroa), who lives in a women\u2019s shelter and tries to launch her own reality dating show inspired by <em>Flavor of Love<\/em>; Felix (Caleb Zuzga), who\u2019s looking for a deep-pocketed sugar daddy to fund his need for lip injections, jaw and cheek filler and other facial retouches; and Eddie (Eddie Torrenegra), a Latino migrant who shoots upbeat Facebook content when he\u2019s not delivering food around town. (There\u2019s also trans model and beauty influencer Emira D\u2019Spain of <em>Next Gen NYC<\/em> fame, but her plotline is practically nonexistent.)<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Here I\u2019m Alive<\/em> cuts between the different characters as if they were in a multiplayer game about trying to make it in the Big Apple, struggling to pay the rent in a city that seems lonelier than it\u2019s ever been, at a time when the wealth gap has risen to levels unseen since the Gilded Age. The problem is that the game they\u2019re playing isn\u2019t all that compelling to watch, even if it may represent a morosely honest reflection of what things are like nowadays, making us wonder: Whatever happened to the thrilling New York of <em>On the Town<\/em>? Or even of <em>Midnight Cowboy<\/em>? And where\u2019s Travis Bickle when you need him?<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWeinstein\u2019s movie is frustratingly realistic, probably more than some of us would like to believe, capturing how the algorithms of Big Tech have ruined what used to be a great setting for great movies. The people in <em>Here I\u2019m Alive<\/em> are so addicted to their screens for both personal and professional reasons, they can no longer experience New York at all. And even when they do experience it, they\u2019re doing it through yet another screen. If the director offers up a glimmer of hope at the very end, showing how at least one character manages to see the light of day, his film deliberately leaves us in the dark.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=1588\">Paramount+ Signs Matt Shakman to Direct Legal Thriller \u2018Discretion\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Here I&#8217;m Alive,&#8217; the second feature from director Joshua Z Weinstein, follows a night in the life of several New Yorkers glued to their screens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[259,1037,1038],"class_list":["post-1594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-tribeca","tag-tribeca-2026","tag-tribeca-film-festival"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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