While watching this, I couldn’t help but think on other films that had caused for me a similar vibe, namely Takashi Miike’s “The Happiness of the Katakuris” and, well, actually any film by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. It has a whimsical, demented, determined happiness that you are either on board with from the beginning or not.
After the Vengeance trilogy and “Thirst”, it’s not what i was expecting, and if anything I was pleasantly surprised. A story about retribution for the ones we love even when no one, including ourselves, seem to understand. Park Chan-wook seems to always be contemplating those circumstances outside ourselves that force us into the choices we make. “I’m a Cyborg…” is definitely his most lighthearted prism to date, and consequently his most accessible.