Watching Repo Men
On this hot weekend, I felt like catching a movie since my last film was Salt. It was a disappointment but I shall leave it in my next post altogether.
Catching up with Kenny together for the movie, it was the only movie that seems to be watchable. In comparison of the rest showing like Expendables, Last Airbender and Grown Ups. A movie that set 20 years into the future adapted from Eric Garcia’s novel “The Repossession Mambo”, it is gruesome to watch. Imagine that the society no longer care about health. In fact, the health care industry is getting bigger and bigger to a point that almost everything can be artificial. Replaced with artiforgs as they called it.
Repo Men
Repossession only took place when the person couldn’t make their due. It shows that the disease that is lurking beneath the today society. We are getting and accumulating more debts. All of these comes with a heavy price. At the same time, I can only imagine that the health issue was simply and easily taken away. Eat healthy? Why to when you can always replace it with artiforgs. This simply throw things away and they come back to bite you telling you that you owe that to your family. Owe that to yourself.
When I told people that I was going to watch the movie, I was given thumbs up. Most of them told me that it is a good movie. I would say yes. At the same time, I felt empty. Perhaps I was feeling sorry for Jude Law. He who play Remy seems to be a less human. Until the very moment he lost his heart.
The story he told, stuck in me now.
“I decided to put the cat into the box. He was trying to tell us something. We’re all alive, we’re all dead, we’re all that cat. But we have to make a choice. We can all purr and lick ourselves and wait for the poison to put us down or we scream and scratch and claw our way right out of the top of that damn box.” – Remy, Repo Men
Are we making the choices or left it to the scientist?
“I hope that you might learn from my mistakes because in the end, a job is not just a job. It’s who you are. If you want to change who are you have to change what you do.”
Sometimes, we can be crazy. We do hope we can get the different result by doing the same thing. The film may be just all about collecting organs but it was well supported with Forest Whitaker and Liev Schreiber. It makes the narration less morbid.
Alice Braga who had mostly parts known as Beth, the club singer who Remy had his eyes on become the epitome for Remy to change. To become a ‘hearty’ person. Indeed, the plot twisted till the end. Seems like the half of the story lies on that fantasy of Remy. Dark but a little too messy.
My rating? 6.6/10
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