I love Park Chan-Wook’s work in all its bravery, risk and occasional avant gardeness. Cyborg is very definitely in the latter category as it is surreal to the max! I agree with other reviewers that it really is so so strange that it could prove for many a challenging film to make it through and to truly find they enjoy. I’m not sure I found the experience ‘enjoyable’ in the purest sense ... however it is so unusual and such a bold and maddeningly surreal approach to the difficult (and often ‘surreal’) manifestations of exploring mental health issues that it deserves recognition and 4 stars at least. An important though sometimes baffling work of cinema. Kudos to the ensemble cast also who magnificently depict characteristics that are quite quite out of the ordinary.
I'm a fan of Chan-wook Park, he's easily one the best and inventive new Korean directors around and 'OldBoy' was one of the best revenge films of all time. 'I'm a Cyborg' though is somewhat of a disappointment. Set in a mental institution it's a strange and quirky love story between a young woman who believes she's a cyborg and a young man who who thinks he can steal people's souls. From a visual point the film is beautiful to watch, though from a story point it's really lacking and the characters never really connect with you as the viewer.
I should have really like this film, its down my usual street. However after an hour I found myself bored and I struggled to get to the end of the film.