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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
A tender, eccentric Korean romance about two isolated people building connection through elaborate private rituals; it shares Cyborg’s buoyant visual imagination and compassionate view of unconventional minds.
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Why this pick
Its handmade dream logic, awkward courtship, and lovingly tactile inventions echo the playful way Cyborg turns fractured perception into a vivid, gentle romantic world.
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Why this pick
This deadpan, meticulously stylized surrealism similarly lets an emotionally estranged protagonist navigate an absurd system, though with a cooler and more unsettling edge than Cyborg.
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Why this pick
Like Cyborg, it uses episodic whimsy, heightened design, and sincere oddballs to make everyday needs feel fantastical, while retaining an unexpectedly warm human core.
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Why this pick
A family’s inner lives bloom into quiet visual absurdity in this gentle, unhurried Japanese fable—an excellent match for Cyborg’s affectionate surrealism and offbeat emotional texture.
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01 / THE STORY
The film takes place mostly in a mental institution filled with an eclectic menagerie of patients. Young-goon, a young woman working in a factory constructing radios and who believes herself to be a cyborg, is institutionalized after Self-harm and connecting it with a power cord to a wall outlet in an attempt to "recharge" herself, an act that is interpreted as a suicide attempt. Her delusion is characterized by refusing to eat (she instead licks batteries and attempts to administer electric shocks to herself), conversing almost solely with machines and electrical appliances and obsessively listening to her vacuum tube radio at night for instruction on how to become a better cyborg. Her apathetic mother is interviewed by the institute's head doctor, to determine the roots of Young-goon's psychosis; despite claiming ignorance of her daughter's delusion (it is later learnt she knew but was too busy to make her seek help), she reveals that Young-goon's mentally ill grandmother had previously been institutionalized for delusions of being a mouse, a trauma that sparks Young-goon's own lapses from reality. As a result, she frequently fantasizes of finding her grandmother and seeking revenge on the "men in white" who took her away.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Park Il-soon
Cha Young-goon
