Synopsis
Year 2007; a guy's lonely 21st birthday; his odd ball girlfriend; night of sheer frenzy and chaos; girl's disappearance; guy's 22nd birthday; return of the eccentric-girl-turned-cyborg! Kwak Jae-yong's Korean-Japanese production Cyborg She closes the 12th PiFan extravaganza. A newest addition to his "Yeob-gi-nyeo (weird chick)" trilogy, next to My Sassy Girl (2001) and Windstruck (2004), Cyborg dabbles at a lot of things: nostalgia for romance, action, melodrama, imagination, time travel, science fiction, and even fantasia elements. The movie suggests possibilities not only for industrial success as evidenced in its cleverly implemented international co-production model but also for pop cultural receptivity proven by the seemingly borderless cultural "Yeob-gi-nyeo" iconography, serving as a testimony to "the energy" of a well-made film capable of speaking to viewers with diverse cultural and ethnic heritages. (Jin PARK)