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I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
A pastel-tinted surrealist romance brimming with tender melancholy and whimsical hope, where two institutionalized misfits heal their shattered realities through sparks of radical empathy and imaginative reinvention.
I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK

싸이보그지만 괜찮아

"She's crazy... He's crazy about her!"

07 December 2006 South Korea 105 min 7.0 (630)

Director: Park Chan-wook

Cast: Lim Soo-jung, Rain, Oh Dal-su, Lee Yeong-mi, Kim Chun-gi

Drama Comedy Romance Radical Empathy and Acceptance Trauma, Guilt, and Somatization Institutional Alienation vs. Imaginative Freedom Existential Dread of Erasure
Box Office: $4,354,510

I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK — Movie Quotes

Memorable Quotes

싸이보그지만 괜찮아. (I'm a cyborg, but that's OK.)
— Cha Young-goon

Context

Spoken as Young-goon finds peace between her inner mythology and her place in the surrounding world.

Meaning

The core thesis statement of self-affirmation, declaring that being radically different or psychologically unconventional is not inherently shameful.

평생 무상 보증! (Lifetime warranty!)
— Park Il-soon

Context

Exclaimed when Il-soon guarantees to Young-goon that the Rice Megatron machine he supposedly installed inside her will never fail.

Meaning

Il-soon's idiosyncratic pledge of unconditional romantic commitment, framed in mechanical terminology to soothe Young-goon's anxieties.

동정심을 훔쳐줘. (Please steal my sympathy.)
— Cha Young-goon

Context

Young-goon asks the kleptomaniac Il-soon to extract her moral capacity for pity so she can mercilessly slaughter the hospital staff.

Meaning

Demonstrates how empathy and human feeling are viewed as intolerable vulnerabilities by someone severely wounded by emotional trauma.

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