The collectible home videos of July

There is a large romance sub-genre in Korean cinema and series dedicated to the theme of “artificial” men and women in love: from k-drama Holo Love – in which the protagonist falls in love with the holographic version of a researcher a My Absolute Boyfriendcentered on a young uniformed by the obsession for an actor and the affection for her perfect robotic boyfriend passing through Are You Human, in which there are two versions – a human and an android – of the protagonist. In I am a Cyborg but that’s Ok the protagonist, a mechanical worker, persuades herself to be a cyborg and tries to integrate circuits in her arm, ending up in a psychiatric institution. There she begins to behave like a robot and she falls in love with another patient, played byidol Rainbut the rom-com takes a sad turn when the girl falls ill with anorexia, convinced that the androids do not eat. I am a Cyborg but that’s Ok is the curious work of Park Chan-wook of the revenge trilogy, also coming to home video for Koch Media