Frankenhooker treats the attempt to rebuild a lost girlfriend as both a grotesque laboratory project and an exposure of its creator's selfishness. The assembled body turns the fantasy of perfect restoration into a collision of other people's lives and desires. Its electric colors and outrageous effects keep the satire visibly artificial. Watch the way the film shifts attention from the inventor's grief to the autonomy of the woman he thinks he can re-create. The joke becomes sharper whenever his technical confidence meets something he cannot own.