Repo Man

Bren & I go for massages at this SPA place at Roxy quite frequently. Once or twice in a month.
I like that place because the furnishing and ambience are very oriental, it looks like a chill out hangout for underground people. You know, people keeping to themselves, plus the dim lighting adds to the air of secrecy. Most of the time, I am the only female patron there.

If you like those back croaking / neck croaking type of massages, then you will like this place.

So anyway, they serve coffee / tea & lunch if you care for a meal after your massage.
We are always thrilled. So far, the local fare are like pork cutlet rice, chwee kuey (soupy), Ipoh noodles, and the nots.

After your meal, if you care for a movie, you can pop in to their theatrette and watch a show.
We caught the "Repo Man" last week.

I wished the sound system was louder, perhaps I ought to tell them to turn up the volume or I would be straining to listen to the dialogues.

So anyway, the Repo Man is a sci-fi movie and it highlighted a scary possibility of a world where artificial body organs are on hire. A company (in the movie: The Union) lets you have the organ, for instance- the liver, the lungs, heart and pancreas. To keep themselves alive, most people sign a repayment agreement for the organs, out of desperation. The trouble comes when the client is unable to keep up with the hefty installment. Three months overdue and a repo man will be sent to collect the organ. Most of the time, the client dies in the process.

Small groups of clients become escapists. They jam the scanners and go into hiding.
So the repo man's job is to hunt them and net back all the organs. The organization is purely commercial oriented, profit driven and cold blooded. Their philosophy is that it is a contract and the client signed on the dotted line.

So, Jude Law was the main character- the repo man.
Somewhere along the course of his work, he began to have a conscience and didn't feel good about himself in his job. His wife pressures him to leave his job. More so now that she doesn't want their son to know the truth about Jude's bloody job.

Jude tries to talk himself into continuing his job and fends off his conscience by saying "a job is a job" over and over.

But at the end of the day, he realised that a job is not just a job, it is who you are.

Before he could make amends, he found himself a "victim" of his own organization. He had a mishap and had an artificial heart installed. (his childhood friend who is also his work partner created the accident, thinking that by creating a dependency in the job will force Jude to stay on and they could both get the promotion he was gunning for) Jude however, could no longer have the conscience to continue his repo job and fell back on his payments and became the hunted.

The rest of the plot is not as interesting. He met another woman on the street etc and after loads of running and fighting, they redeemed their artificial organs and wiped out all records of other clients, thus freeing all of them from their giant creditor.

What I've observed:-

• People will do almost anything in a life threatening, desperate situation.
• Your job's principal and yours are not far apart.
  
• Your closest friend may sabotage you for selfish reasons.
  
• That I do not particularly like this movie.