After her ailing, radish-eating grandmother is hospitalised, a young woman starts believing she is a robot, stops eating, and is admitted to a mental hospital where most of the patients are just as strange as she is. After this beginning, Chan Wook Park's film, 'I'm a Cyborg, but that's OK', only gets weirder. The film certainly does not resemble any conventional drama set in a psychiatric institution, but rather the surreal movies scripted by Charlie Kaufman, with their imaginative distortions of reality. Personally, I found this film just a little too whimsical, if not frankly silly, but it's partially rescued by it's continuous inventiveness: there's always something going on visually, even if it doesn't make sense. I suspect you'd be ill-advised to consider this movie an insight into mainstream Korean humour; you certainly won't see too many other films like it, from west or east.
Review of I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
