14:43 Sunday, June 06 2008

Saibogujiman kwenchana

Last night we watched I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (Saibogujiman kwenchana). This is a Korean film about a woman who checks in a mental asylum when she's convinced that she's actually a cyborg. This had to be one of the most bizarre films that I've seen in a very long time. Sure, characters in a mental asylum are going to be wacky, but this one was so much more so. From the guy who walks backwards everywhere, to the grandmother who eats nothing but Daikon radish, to the dude who spends much of the film wearing handmade masks to the overweight women who steals everyone else's food, the characters were so very very weird. Add in the off the wall plotline of this woman who believes that she's a cyborg who needs to charge her batteries in order to have sufficient strength kill the asylum employees who took away her grandmother, and this was such a very strange trip. This isn't to say that the film wasn't entertaining, but all the same it was WEIRD.
And for the record, we watched this (and all other films that aren't in English) with subtitles. Watching any film dubbed takes alot away from the overall meaning of the film.