Albin’s epiphany in “I Am What I Am” is simple yet profound: He wants neither praise nor pity, but only to be seen as his “own special creation.”

YANGJU, South Korea — In the late 1970s, before he became a television star and a household name in South Korea, Im Chae-moo was working as an extra when he had an epiphany.

She has an epiphany about her own ambitiousness, the apple not falling far from the tree.

She also points to an epiphany she had a quarter century ago, when she went to a Yankees game and sat in the bleachers.

As the escalating pressure mounts, he has a cathartic meltdown and several epiphanies that are fun to watch.