i'm a cyborg, but that's okay.

yesterday evening - i was dead tired - i decided to watch a korean movie from director park chan-wook, and i'm happy that i did not skip it for a good portion of sleep.

the movie takes place in a mental institution where young-gun ( who thinks she's a cyborg ) and il-sun ( who believes he can steal souls from people ) meet each other.
young-gun refuses to eat because she thinks her body gets destroyed if she does, so she tries to load her batteries in different ways. after she gets electric shocks she thinks that she's in full energy mode again, and with that, trys ( and dreams ) to murder the 'white people' ( the doctors ) because they took her grandma ( who thought she was a mouse :3 ) away.
il-sun however realizes that she is in danger of dieing and invents a so-called 'rice-megatron' that converts rice into energy when she eats it. this saves young-gun's live and bonds her tighter to il-sun which results in a romantic and lovely relationship.

park chan-wook made a movie that is full of crazy ideas, bright colours and love and the mix is just overwhelming in such a good way. i loved this little moments of pure emotion like when il-sun and young-gun are sitting in a machine room and il-sun is 'operating' the rice-converter device into her body. that was one of the most beautiful scenes ever. or when he finally manages to make young-gun eat so she can live, the hug was just too cute :D
i really, really recommend this beautiful, strange and still so human movie to everyone who like their romance stories subtle, hidden and very original :D

some more links:
wikipedia site
more pictures and a nice review on asian cinema drifter
rain & im su-jeong & park chan wook infos.

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november: kickelhahn, himmelblau & weimar cemetery.

i had a week off in november and visited my parents ( as i often do on my vacations ). on a sunday morning we headed to the thuringian forest to climb onto the peak of the kickelhahn mountain. the kickelhahn mountain is the landmark mountain of the city of ilmenau . johann wolfgang von goethe , the famous writer & philosopher, often visited ilmenau and also climbed the kickelhahn. oftentimes he stopped at a little hut in the woods to relax for a while and on one of these stops he wrote one of his most known poems. our little adventure didn't last the whole day, though, as we had a little date with the weimar cemetery to look after the grave of my grandparents and then to visit my cousin and his family. tiny peek onto the kickelhahn tower. thuringian woods - deep dark green. at the goethe hut. this plate shows the german version of the poem goethe wrote here. inside the hut. and here's the english translation. i love this poem so much, as ...

in the forests.

it's that time of the year again.

july '20: lake petersdorf discoveries and a plea against genocide.

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ghost of nature.

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