It is a style of storytelling that disappointed me at first. In fact, the storylines are so twisted, the movie can’t even present them all without interrupting the regular narrative with sequences of comic book panels that clarify important details. There are so many storylines and they are so intertwined, trying to summarize them for review is a daunting process. The story is something a bit more operatic, dealing with common themes ranging from revenge, lost loves, a loss of innocence, and more. Meanwhile, illicitly gained organs, or those financed by people unable to keep up with payments, draw the attention of the Repo Man, a mythic figure of the underworld who hunts down his prey and reclaims body parts - with all the blood and gore you might expect.īut all of that is just the setting - the environment the movie takes place in. A painkiller designed to help ease people through surgery has gained popularity in a black market form that is acquired from the dead - a supply that is easily found, considering the apocalyptic future city has been raised on mass graves. With surgery having been a necessity for so long, the elite public have grown addicted to the knife, replacing their mundane body parts in a search for genetic perfection. At the same time, it’s a fair piece of social commentary. Set in a future where mankind has faced an epidemic of organ failures and been both saved and doomed by corporate greed, describing the setting of Repo! as dark is an understatement. So well executed, in fact, that it might have limited its own potential by shutting itself off from the audience it would need to raise the bar for future rock operas. The rock opera take on a science-fiction/horror story is incredibly ambitious and well executed. Repo! The Genetic Opera may not be that movie, but not for a lack of trying. Every once in a while you have a movie that challenges the expectations of a genre and raises the bar for future expectations.
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