I’m A Cyborg But That’s OK
In I'm A Cyborg But That's OK, the main character, Young Goon (played by Lim Sujeoing) has a very odd look rarely seen in all cinematic movies. She wears black fright wigs with thick bangs, accompanied by protruding teeth (as she claims to love wearing her grandma's denture) and bleached eyebrows. And don't forget those times when her mouth is opened to disclose a bullet machine gun that shoots off her fingers!
Why do all these weird things happen? It's because Yong Goon really believes that she is a cyborg - so much so that the family members even have to send her to mental health facilities. Here's where she encounters many fellow patients undergoing different kinds of delusions, recreated with panache by Park Chan Wook.
"I'm A Cyborg But That's OK" flirts well with cutesy madness - the tendency to minimize mental illnesses by using them as excuses to have quirky characters. Though some patients are a bit more than just punch lines sometimes, their main role is still to serve as the background's visual gags. Each character is given a defining idiosyncrasy - a case in point is the man walking backward due to his apologetic pathology - and that's basically it.
But this does not bother most audiences as it should have. Such movie plots are partly the reason why Lim shines, as she never lets her strange behavior or look overshadow the humanity of the character she plays.
Release: 2006
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Stars: Im Soo Jung, Jeong Ji Hoon, Oh Dal Su
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 92%
