I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (Saibogujiman Kwenchana) (2006)

Posted : 5 months, 3 weeks ago at May 31 15:19

I'm a Cyborg, But That's Ok is an unconventional love story. It’s set in a Korean mental institute as it follows Young-goon, a young woman who refuses to eat, instead opting to be ‘charged up’ from licking batteries. She converses with lights, clocks and vending machines and take daily guidance from radio broadcasts. This is all because Young-goon believes herself to be a robot. The film introduces you to the other patients of the institution and their psychotic conditions as Young-goon settles into her institutionalised lifestyle with the nurses who seem to have as little clue about the realities of life as the inmates. Flash backs from Young-goons earlier life show how she was raised by her grandmother who was one day carted off to a mental leaving behind her false teeth. E...Read more

Rating : 8/10