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I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK

Saibogujiman kwenchana (I'm A Cyborg, But That's Ok)

2006

Park Chan-wook

Lim Soo-jung, Rain, Choi Hee-jin, Lee Yong-nyeo ...

6.6

7,649

Comedy. Drama. Romance 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. Undaunted, the young woman dons her grandmother's dentures and insists on talking to all manner of machines - from slot machines to lamps. Young-goon is by no means a unique case. Other patients at the ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Derek Elley Variety	"Witty, playful, romantic, tragic, Park Chan-wook's 'I'm a Cyborg, but That's OK' is a whole chocolate box of emotions in a highly decorative but absolutely characteristic wrapping"
		Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"Actors perform mental illness like clowns in a circus (...) The environment itself becomes oppressive, not because it's a gloomy hospital but because it's a cartoon world where everything is forced and artificial."
		Kim Newman Empire	"It's mental but charming, so that's OK (...) rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"This is a frustrating and unsatisfying piece of work (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Dave Kehr The New York Times	"[A] wildly experimental, unclassifiable film (...) Executed with Park's usual attention to the tiniest details of visual style"
		Simon Abrams Slant	"It’s Park’s most volatile film to date (...) 'Cyborg' is also probably Park’s most expressively resonant film (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"
		David Jenkins Time Out	"As intelligent and ornate a piece of work as we might expect from this gifted helmer (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		IndieWire	"It would be pretty sacrilegious to compile a list of Korean New Wave cinema and not include its most iconic and influential film to date 'Oldboy,' (...) A frequent touchpoint for revenge movies in general"

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