Cha Young-goon is a patient in a mental home as she believes that she is a cyborg, that she could sustain herself just by taking energy from batteries, and that food consumption will ruin her circuits. Furthermore, he thinks that she can communicate with other machines, thus spending much of her time talking to vending machines.
Park Il-sun, a former electrician who thinks he can steal personalities, falls in love with her and tries to “conquer” her while he searches for a way to make her eat.
Park Chan-wook’s take on the romance genre could not be a normal one, with the love story of the film being utterly unconventional, while he managed to avoid almost every cliché of the category. His biggest achievement lies with his use of humor, which appears in some of the most dramatic scenes of the film. The way he manages to balance the two is truly magnificent. The highlight of this is the different ways Il-sun invents to make Young-goon eat, which could only be characterized as adorably paranoid.
Su Jeong-lim as Cha Young-goon is magnificent in the role of a vulnerable, schizophrenic mannequin, benefitting the most by both her performance and her physical appearance.
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