Repo Man
The utter weirdness of alex cox’s outstanding debut—a file of l. A.’s hardcore punk scene that’s also an ode to its automobile tradition, a critique of the yank middle class, and a kind-of sci-fi comedy approximately a radioactive chevy malibu—would seem to prevent its life. And yet right here it's far.
Greater than 30 years later, the film isn't any worse for the wear. No longer so much in advance of its time as outside of it, the movie’s l. A. Punk particularities have broadened over time. Its ennui has persevered not just as a portrait of a certain era of indignant adolescents, however as one of indignant formative years writ large. Bland white-and-blue cans categorized “lite beer” and “yellow grasp sliced peaches” can also appear like blunderingly flagrant evaluations of capital, however their blatancy is only commensurate with the brazenness of capital itself. Just like the shades in wood worker’s movie that magically demystify the existent authoritarian infrastructure by stripping it to its scaffolding, peeling the flesh from the nicely-dressed power bloc and paring down mock-complex billboards to marching order edicts like “devour” and “obey,” repo man’s greater-barefaced signposts are in location to productively hail a generation that’s been overwhelmed down under the boot heel of obviousness.