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Summary: A girl who thinks she is a combat cyborg checks into a mental hospital, where she encounters other psychotics. Eventually, she falls for a man who thinks he can steal people's souls. (imdb)
The rare movie that can use mental illness as a backdrop to comedy without being cruel or exploitative. I'm a Cyborg But That's OK challenges us on our ideas regarding mental illness, asks questions about whether we have a right to our own reality -- even when that reality is a harmful delusion -- and shows that love sometimes comes in extraordinary forms.
This was a friggin strange movie. Really confusing. But the cinematography was absolutely stunning and there were many funny bits in it too. And some cute parts =]
Nobody gets their achilles' tendon slit, or their teeth forcibly extracted with a claw hammer. My first non-vengeance Park film, and I have to say I was at least a little impressed. Just a beautiful, clever film. Not especially deep, but it's not like every movie has to be a brutal analysis of man's seeming addiction to cruelty, degradation, shame and suffering.
Very close to being Park's best. In fact, the first 30 minutes or so are nothing short of perfection. A wonderful mix of sweetness and eccentricity, while also being a welcome break from this director's usual business (though, he does sneak his sympathy theme in).
The premise is wonderful, the execution less so. It is quite funny and, in its own strange way, it does deliver in the romance aspect (in fact it is really, really sweet) but at times it is almost too cloying in its strangeness and the mix of styles, tones and content here never gels completely. It feels like a bit of a mess, and at times it is hard to know quite what Park is getting at or intending, but it is a solidly amusing mess and I quite enjoyed it.
Park Chan-Wook repels his conventional themes of revenge, murder and death to create a quirky rom-com set in a mental hospital. Glowing with a rainbow palette and enchanting score, Cyborg is camp, beautiful and bittersweet. Original on so many levels, its one of Chan-Wook most accessible, if not entirely representative, gems.
Like all of Park's films, it's deliciously bizarre and imaginative throughout, with amazing visual presentation. Many of the camera shots are hypnotic, and the blend of white in the lunatic asylum with the color is wonderful. There is also both humor and great creativity with the gang of nuts at the asylum, and the scenes of Young-Goong turning into a cyborg are neat action. Not quite enough deep and varied content to be called "great", but an excellent film, one of the best romantic comedies.
"Chan-wook Park takes a break from his violent films and directs a romantic comedy a la Amelie, only instead of charming quirks, he uses contrived insanity... The quirk is forced and silly, failing at charming or involving the audience, but the movie is interesting and fun because of its amazing visual style, albeit with Park's typical pointless shuffling of flashbacks and narrative."
It can definitely get a little too weird for it's own good at times, especially early on, but everything winds up coming together very nicely. It's about what you'd expect from a Romantic Comedy by Chan-wook Park. Visually fantastic and simultaneously fun and dark.