I’m a Cyborg, but That’s OK  By Adam Lippe  Onion AV Club writer
Nathan Rabin coined the term manic pixie dream girl to describe
that irritating sprite of a character that’s always adorable,
energetic, impulsive, and bound to bring a down-on-his-luck,
brooding, scruffy, yet good-looking outsider back to the surface
so he can discover how wonderful life can be. He was describing
Kirsten Dunst’s character in Elizabethtown, but it just as
easily fits Natalie Portman in Garden State, Mary Elizabeth
Winstead in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, or Audrey Tautou’s
career-defining role as Amelie. The problem with these types of
characters is that we never get to see them when the mania ends,
nor the consequences of anything they irresponsibly, as the
movie ends before we see that.  Chan-wook Park’s I’m a Cyborg,
but That’s OK has its bright colors, magical realism, an
adorable and anorexic lead, and its whimsical and twee touches
blanketing the film. But, unlike Amelie, who would be
intolerable as a person and painfully