I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
(2006)
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I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
(2006)
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Su-jeong Lim | ... |
Cha Young-goon
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| Rain | ... |
Park Il-sun
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Hie-jin Choi | ... |
Choi Seul-gi
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Byeong-ok Kim | ... |
Judge
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Yong-nyeo Lee | ... |
Young-goon's mother
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Dal-su Oh | ... |
Shin Duk-cheon
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Ho-jeong Yu | ... |
Il-sun's mother
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A young woman who believes she's a cyborg hears voices and harms herself while at work making radios. She's hospitalized in a mental institution where she eats nothing and talks to inanimate objects. She's Young-goon, granddaughter of a woman who thought she was a mouse (and whose dentures Young-goon wears) and a mother who's a butcher without much social grace. Young-goon comes to the attention of Il-sun, a ping-pong playing patient at the institution who makes it his goal to get her to eat. Will he succeed? Which way does sanity lie? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
This film is an alternative comedy about the love between two psychiatric patients in a mental hospital.
The way the film opened was entertaining and clever. The psychotic factory girl almost killed herself under psychotic influence, against a background of cyborg looking factory workers who move in a coordinated and stereotyped way. There is really a contrast as to who is normal and who is abnormal.
The film contains a lot of absurd and yet convincing ways of how mental patients can be weird. In addition, the main characters' development are excellent. The reasons why they became psychotic were given convincingly. Despite all the absurdities, viewers get to feel for the characters.
It is an alternative romantic comedy. It does not strive to have perfect characters with the perfect life. It is down to earth and realistic. Viewing the world through a psychotic lens is definitely interesting.