I'm A Cyborg Details

[Highly rated reviewer]

Odd, but in a very good way

A young girl in a mental asylum - she doesn't eat because she believes she's a cyborg and doesn't need to - and a young boy who wants her to start eating again. An unusual storyline and an unusual film.

When you start watching a film that you know is going to be about psychiatric issues and mental instability, there's a sense of nervousness about how it will be handled. In this case, I found I took a real liking to the characters and there wasn't anything distasteful or inappropriate. This film is a quirkily told story, with several short scenes of pure fantasy - all of which just sit in the film without any attention being drawn to them. Which bits are the fantasy of the characters and which are the reality of their life in the asylum? It's obvious sometimes, but...

If you like this, you would probably enjoy 'Eagle vs. Shark'. Or vice versa. I loved them both.

Colourful, touching and imaginative love story.

Set in a korean insane asylum, this charming film manages to avoid coming over as try-hard and doesn't squeeze easy laughs from it's quirky characters but instead confounded my expectations by presenting a sweet and sad story of a girl who tries to handle loss by retreating into fantasy and a young boy who loves her, himself sad and troubled, trying to make her break her hunger strike by any means necessary. It all looks beautiful and modernist and the moments of pure fantasy are spectacularly realised.