This Korean asylum romance from Park Chan-wook is gentler, if no less extreme, than the director’s ‘vengeance’ trilogy, and boasts amazing flights of fantasy.
Young-goon (Lim) believes she’s a cyborg and enters an asylum. She chats to vending machines, sometimes wearing her granny’s dentures, and imagines massacring the staff with her finger-guns, meanwhile being gently wooed by a lad (Rain) with an odd form of psychic kleptomania.
It rehashes business about crazy people being saner than the normals, but exercises a certain charm to go along with undeniable moviemaking nous.
