Jude Law's Heart in Danger of Being Repossessed in Repo Men
January 3rd 2010 04:50
In the near future, supposedly, there's a company that sells artificial organs on credit. These organs are so expensive that recipients, except those who are rich enough, are unable to pay. If this is the case, the recipients are as good as dead because they become targets of the Repo Men, whose job is to repossess the organ for the company, leaving the implantee dead.
Jude Law is a Repo Man named Remy who enjoys his job at The Union. He has no qualms about opening indebted people up while still alive and yanking the artificial organ out. Hey, it's a job and one that pays well. Why wouldn't he do it? He doesn't have any conscience after all and he has a partner in Forest Whitaker's character Jake. They grew up together and work together. They're the best of buddies. But the good life of killing with Jake takes a turn towards the opposite direction for Remy when he figures in an accident that makes him a recipient for an artificial heart from the same people he works for.
Remy ends up on the run because he knows he can't pay for the artificial heart. We can only wonder why the company doesn't provide benefits for their employees in case of organ failure. But anyway, Remy finds that he can't kill debtors anymore and gets into a conflict with Jake. He confides his problem to his girlfriend who helps him infiltrate the organ factory. There, he wrecks havoc after men with guns come in and start shooting. A lot of factory workers get killed, of course, and Remy gets away in the ranks of assembly workstations.
Repo Men (not to be confused with a 1984 flick called Repo Man) isn't a movie about moral dilemmas about killing, although it would seem like it. Remy is still a killer even after his organ transplant and subsequent "enlightenment." What he does realize after he gets a new heart is that organ recipients like him shouldn't be killed just because they can't pay their debt, or that he works for a company that sucks bigtime and just wants out. In one scene, he simply demands, with a gun pointed at someone, that he be taken out of the system. That implies his selfish motives. He comes to the conclusion that The Union and those involved must be stopped. He becomes an unwitting savior of sorts to other recipients like him - an act that may be interpreted as Remy's penance for killing so many of them in the past.
Repo Men is a nice piece of science-fiction. But the premise of using metal organs as replacement body parts may be a bit off in this age of stem cells and organ culturing. Metal parts are so RoboCop-old and passe. Cells can now be turned into whatever organ you need them to be and they don't even have to come from the body of another person. Bone marrow cells have even been successfully turned into sperm cells.
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Jude Law is a Repo Man named Remy who enjoys his job at The Union. He has no qualms about opening indebted people up while still alive and yanking the artificial organ out. Hey, it's a job and one that pays well. Why wouldn't he do it? He doesn't have any conscience after all and he has a partner in Forest Whitaker's character Jake. They grew up together and work together. They're the best of buddies. But the good life of killing with Jake takes a turn towards the opposite direction for Remy when he figures in an accident that makes him a recipient for an artificial heart from the same people he works for.
Remy ends up on the run because he knows he can't pay for the artificial heart. We can only wonder why the company doesn't provide benefits for their employees in case of organ failure. But anyway, Remy finds that he can't kill debtors anymore and gets into a conflict with Jake. He confides his problem to his girlfriend who helps him infiltrate the organ factory. There, he wrecks havoc after men with guns come in and start shooting. A lot of factory workers get killed, of course, and Remy gets away in the ranks of assembly workstations.
Repo Men (not to be confused with a 1984 flick called Repo Man) isn't a movie about moral dilemmas about killing, although it would seem like it. Remy is still a killer even after his organ transplant and subsequent "enlightenment." What he does realize after he gets a new heart is that organ recipients like him shouldn't be killed just because they can't pay their debt, or that he works for a company that sucks bigtime and just wants out. In one scene, he simply demands, with a gun pointed at someone, that he be taken out of the system. That implies his selfish motives. He comes to the conclusion that The Union and those involved must be stopped. He becomes an unwitting savior of sorts to other recipients like him - an act that may be interpreted as Remy's penance for killing so many of them in the past.
Repo Men is a nice piece of science-fiction. But the premise of using metal organs as replacement body parts may be a bit off in this age of stem cells and organ culturing. Metal parts are so RoboCop-old and passe. Cells can now be turned into whatever organ you need them to be and they don't even have to come from the body of another person. Bone marrow cells have even been successfully turned into sperm cells.
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