Award winning Director Park Chan-wook’s quirky love story between two young inmates of an asylum; a woman who thinks she’s a cyborg and a man with who believes he can steal people’s souls.
Witty, playful, romantic, tragic, Park Chan-wook’s I’m A Cyborg is a leap from his Vengenance Trilogy (Oldboy, Sympathy for Mr Vengeance and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance) but is no less successful.
Young-goon is a patient at a psychiatric clinic because she is convinced she is a cyborg. She refuses food, charging her batteries instead with electric shocks from a transistor radio. Naturally, this does nothing to improve her health.
Young-goon’s life changes the day that Il-soon is admitted. This good-looking young man who has a penchant for wearing masks, is considered to be anti-social. He soon convinces his fellow-patients that he also possesses the uncanny ability to steal their personality traits. It is not long before a tender romance develops between him and Young-goon. However, the young girl’s condition is steadily deteriorating. With the aid of some of the other patients, a desperate Il-soon tries to put her back on her feet again.
Dir. Chan-wook Park - 2006 - South Korea - 105 mins - Cert 15 - Tartan Films
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