Korean movies never cease to amaze me. Their stories are so dramatic and genuine. After row after row watching the same Holywood styles, watching a Korean movies is really like a drop of water in the dessert, so refreshing. This is the impression that I got from watching Park Chan-wook’ s (also directed Oldboy and Sympathy For Mr Vengeance) latest movie: I’m A Cyborg.
The movie resolves around a weird girl, Young-goon played by Lim Su-jeong, who has a accute delusional disorder. She thinks that is a cyborg. She works in a factory, essembling computers, where she cut herself in the wrist (accidently?) and passed out. She woke up in the asylum and refused to talk to anybody but the machines. Since she thought that she is a cyborg, she also refused to eat. Instead, she tried to recharge herself by licking a battery.
The story is getting interesting and to make it more interesting, great scenes are there to entertain us. Look at how her toes blink when her battery is running low. And we were also presented by her deluisonal imaginery mechanical organs inside her body.
Korean star, Rain, played as Il-sun also another patient in the asylum, came to the rescue by trying to save her. And just like any other love story, their frequent meeting resulted in a slowly developed romance.