Thursday, October 23, 2008

I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK


I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK is a Korean romantic comedy film directed by Park Chan-wook. I find this movie very unique. The love story is not "sumo" (a bisaya term).

This film's setting is in a mental institution. Young-goon, a young woman who believes herself to be a cyborg, refuses to eat and instead administers electric shocks to herself. Il-sun, a young male patient hospitalized for anti-social behaviour and schizophrenia, who believes he can take other peoples souls, befriends Young-goon. After Young-goon is given shock treatment, she believes that she has been recharged and fantasizes about killing the hospital staff who had previously taken her mentally-ill grandmother away. In reality, her physical condition begins to deteriorate rapidly. By convincing her that he had installed a food-to-electrical-energy converting unit (a rice-megatron) in her back, Il-sun gets Young-goon to eat.

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