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Natural City (2003) is a South Korean sci-fi action drama you can watch online on iFILM. The year is 2080. Ecological collapse and endless wars have left most of the planet in ruins, and the survivors huddle inside fortified city-states.
Science has learned to clone DNA and build cyborgs with artificial minds — soldiers, servants and companions made to order. There is one catch: they run for exactly three years, then break down and get flagged for destruction. An elite squad hunts the runaways, and among them serves an officer named R. He has fallen for Ria, a cyborg dancer whose lifespan is nearly up, and he goes looking for a way to move her consciousness into a living human host. That quiet, doomed love is the engine of the whole film.
Director Min Byung-chun shot a rain-soaked neon cyberpunk that gets compared to Blade Runner, only laced with Korean melancholy and brutal gunfights. Yoo Ji-tae leads as R. It will land for anyone who wants the question "what makes us human" asked not as a lecture but in the middle of a dark city and a chase after androids. Stream Natural City (2003) online on iFILM.
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