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alcesverdes) wrote2010-08-04 03:48 pm
alcesverdes) wrote2010-08-04 03:48 pm
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Repo Men
I admit it, as I was watching it, I was comparing it to Repo! The Genetic Opera. The conclusion of the exercise was that I like Repo! better in all its over-the-top magnificent glory.
Repo! is in a big part the coming-of-age story of girl named Shilo since at the end she is liberated from the hands of her dominant and over-protective father and is free to go out to the world and do whatever she wants. It's also pretty much a fairytale; Blind Mag is a fairy-like godmother to Shilo. On of the things I really like about it is that there is neither a Charming Prince nor a Knight In Shining Armor. It's just her. Shilo has to find out by herself the truth behind her father and the control the company's owner has over him, which are all linked to her mother's dead.
Meanwhile, Repo Men is about this guy who only begins to feel empathy towards others when he's actually affected by the very work he used to do.
So, yeah.
Something interesting is the importance of songs in both movies. And I mean songs with lyrics and stuff. In Repo!, well, it's a musical, and in Repo Men there are a lot of songs playing in the background, and the lyrics are somewhat relevant to what is going on or what is going to happen.
Also, one of the clients who are going to be repossessed, the calmest one of them all, who even has some lines before the procedure starts, is a music producter, and Beth is a singer.
While I'm at it, what's with the action movies that just plain don't want to keep families together? As soon as I saw that the protagonist of Repo Men had a wife and a kid, I told myself: "the guy is going to end up with another woman at the end, right?" And yes, I was right. In a way, since the guy ended up hooked up to the Matrix. The important thing here is that his Happy World excluded the wife and child, and part of that dream sequence had the boy knocking out his mom with a taser to shut her up.
So yes, I did side with the wife about her decision of throwing the guy away. At least she and her son survived the movie?
TL;DR: If Repo Men wanted to be an ultra-violent satiric take on modern society, I still think RoboCop did it better.
Also, the scene with the guy fighting his way through a corridor full of enemies? Better done in Oldboy where all Dae-Su had was one hammer and no assistant.
Repo! is in a big part the coming-of-age story of girl named Shilo since at the end she is liberated from the hands of her dominant and over-protective father and is free to go out to the world and do whatever she wants. It's also pretty much a fairytale; Blind Mag is a fairy-like godmother to Shilo. On of the things I really like about it is that there is neither a Charming Prince nor a Knight In Shining Armor. It's just her. Shilo has to find out by herself the truth behind her father and the control the company's owner has over him, which are all linked to her mother's dead.
Meanwhile, Repo Men is about this guy who only begins to feel empathy towards others when he's actually affected by the very work he used to do.
So, yeah.
Something interesting is the importance of songs in both movies. And I mean songs with lyrics and stuff. In Repo!, well, it's a musical, and in Repo Men there are a lot of songs playing in the background, and the lyrics are somewhat relevant to what is going on or what is going to happen.
Also, one of the clients who are going to be repossessed, the calmest one of them all, who even has some lines before the procedure starts, is a music producter, and Beth is a singer.
While I'm at it, what's with the action movies that just plain don't want to keep families together? As soon as I saw that the protagonist of Repo Men had a wife and a kid, I told myself: "the guy is going to end up with another woman at the end, right?" And yes, I was right. In a way, since the guy ended up hooked up to the Matrix. The important thing here is that his Happy World excluded the wife and child, and part of that dream sequence had the boy knocking out his mom with a taser to shut her up.
So yes, I did side with the wife about her decision of throwing the guy away. At least she and her son survived the movie?
TL;DR: If Repo Men wanted to be an ultra-violent satiric take on modern society, I still think RoboCop did it better.
Also, the scene with the guy fighting his way through a corridor full of enemies? Better done in Oldboy where all Dae-Su had was one hammer and no assistant.