It's wonderful in pretty much every way. I think with this film, Chan-wook Park explores his full potential in the realm of levity. To me it feels like a near polar opposite to Oldboy, the director's most famous and beloved film, in its tone. There is such a bouncy and unbridled energy to it, especially in the first half, which strikes me as a far cry from the moodier and more contemplative moments in Oldboy. Watching this film however, it didn't take long to feel that Park channeled the same directing expertise into it which made films like Oldboy and The Handmaiden such masterpieces. For starters, the execution of this film is absolutely mesmerizing. Like his other films, Park's camera seems to adopt more of a role as a spectator than as a mere tool for framing the story. The simpler way of putting it is that it's a sort of fly-on-the-wall feel. The camera glides around scenes effortlessly and takes on a life of its own, like a ghost which haunts the very space of the film. That space by the way, is given the same dream like quality as its peers, with exaggerated saturated colors and lighting which gives the settings a sense of being more fantasy than reality.Of course it's only too fitting that this film should look like a fantasy, because in many ways that is the nature of the story. Because the story centers on a cast of characters which are nearly all delusional, the way that the audience perceives the reality of the film is a reflection of that delusion. What we witness is the experience of these characters, so when they take flight, reduce in size, fire bullets out of their finger tips, and so on, while we understand that it's merely a fantasy, we also understand that for the people in the film it is very much a reality. That I think is ultimately the purpose of this film. While it is ostensibly a quirky comedy about a bunch of crazy people and their wacky adventures, at its core its an empathetic look at delusional people. The juxtaposition of the way the doctors of the mental institution relate to them and the way they relate to each other I think demonstrates the lessons that the film wishes to impart onto its audience. You can't expect to understand the people around you, healthy or sick, if you're not willing to put yourself in their shoes and experience the world in the way that they experience it. Check it out. It's nice.

Young-goon is mentally ill, who imagines herself as a combat cyborg. Her problems are: first, she doesn't want to eat and thinks she needs electricity to be charged; second, she wants to send denture to her grandma, who has already been sent to a mental hospital for thinking she is a rats and eating radish only; third, she needs to figure out what her grandma wants to tell her about the ultimate meaning of living. After she fails to charge herself, Young-goon is also sent to a mental hospital, where she meets a bunch of wardmates with different symptoms but equally powerful imagination. Il-sun is one of them with schizophrenia and kleptomania. believing he can steal everything in the world. Il-sun is to help Young-goon solve her problems and meanwhile pacify his own inner wounds.This story is generally about how the two schizophrenic patients comfort each other and fall in love. Crazy!Chan-Wook Park is the director with his unique style in film language. His works are very recognizable and always with great fun (to some extent, as those of Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Wes Anderson). I like Chan-Wook Park's works for their beautiful appearance-jumping cut, flexible camera, bright colors and interesting soundtrack- rather than the story itself. Olyboy, Stoker and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance are all about cruel revenge and are a little too bloody for me. Besides, for me. it's difficult to get why those stories develop and end in a certain crazy way, maybe because I'm just not as crazy as those characters in the stories.But I really enjoy "I'm a Cyborg. But That's OK". Yes, it's still crazy. But who cares how crazy it is, since all the characters live in a mental hospital. We cannot understand their imagination world. Just enjoy! There is no much bloody in this film. Happiness and cruelty are very well balanced.

There's not really any way to describe this movie accurately without using the word bizarre, is there? 'I'm a Cyborg' is one of the most entertaining films I've seen in a long time, with a perfectly weird combination of comedy, romance, sci-fi, and something I like to call asylum drama, which places it in an entirely new genre of its own. Despite every character in this movie being very strange and, in most cases, insane, you really feel emotionally attached and connected to them; their emotions become partially yours, and you actually care about what's happening. I think this is what makes all the weirdness so much more effective, because it impacts you more heavily while seeming like you're a part of it. The dialogue between the protagonist and her love interest is rather lovely, and their private scenes together really effect us as an audience. The visuals in 'I'm a Cyborg' provide something extremely interesting and fun to watch, and have a unique and original feel to them which I find hard to find in any English or American films - at least in the mainstream, anyway. Being set in a mental hospital often means that you'll see some crazy stuff in a film, and that's certainly the case here: not only do you experience the 'madness' of all the patients, you see most of the movie from Young-oon's perspective, meaning you spend the whole film with a 'cyborg'. While this film definitely isn't for everyone, I'd try watching it no matter who you are. It's splendidly written and performed, and I think it could surprise people.

According to plot, it may seem like we got a wonderful movie. But the whole production looks cheap and cheesy, eventually in first 20 minutes you get bored. Camera angles, light setup at the scenes, acting, editing etc. pulls the film way below what it meant to be.At an environment like a mental hospital, which includes many original characters that supposed to be the main characters of film, storytelling should have taken us into that feeling which we may experience the patients own reality. (consider that their reality is amazingly rich and different comparing to us)If this had been an animation made by Miyazaki or a creative like him,(I mean people who come up with stories which can be considered as mostly fantasy or stories that contains powerful fiction and imagination) I believe outcome would be much much better. Cause you have much more freedom at an animation specially for a movie like this.This time, as a fan of your cinema, shame on you Korea..