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Repo Men
2010 · Film · 111 min
Directed by Miguel Sapochnik
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In the future, medical technology has advanced to the point where people can buy artificial organs to extend their lives. But if they default on payments, an organization known as the Union sends agents to repossess the organs. Remy is one of the best agents in the business, but when he becomes the recipient of an artificial heart, he finds himself in the same dire straits as his many victims.
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Repo Men is the 2010 film; Repo Man is the 1984 one.
To stay on topic, Repo! The Generic Opera (2008) is another film - a musical, even! - that covers a very similiar topic.
Zydrate comes in a little glass vial...
This is the basis of the book "The Repossession Mambo" [0] and the (slightly less good) film "Repo Men" [1].
They're about what happens when you can no longer pay for your artificial body parts (the repo man comes and reclaims their property).
0: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6283942-the-repossession-mambo
1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo_Men
This is giving me feelings similar to that movie repo men where you had to rent life saving organs and they could come repossess them at any time.
Remind me of the 2010 movie Repo Men which is about someone with the job to reposes organs from people who can't pay the bills on them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo_Men
Movie: Repo Men
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo_Men
> because, like private "for profit" prisons, it incentivises bad things.
See also the movie Repo Men based on The Repossession Mambo by Eric Garcia:
> In 2025, advancements in medical technology have perfected bio-mechanical organs. A corporation known as The Union sells these expensive "artiforgs" on credit, and when customers are unable or unwilling to pay for their artiforgs The Union sends "repo men" to locate and forcibly repossess the organ - invariably resulting in the death of the owner. […]
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo_Men
I'm reminded of the movie Repo Men.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1053424/plotsummary
There was a movie that took these policies to their logical conclusion: Repo Men.
"In the near future, you can buy artificial organs on credit. But you had better make those payments..."
When so many people don't have a way of accessing the internet besides of their phones, and internet access is essential to meaningfully participate in our society and economy, these sorts of actions become less defensible. It's all about context.
On the bright side for Google/Apple/etc, they have wormed their way into our collective lives to the point where "phone culture" might start to drive legislative decisions in the same way that "car culture" did in the past decades.
>> unrelated, but REPO MAN (1984) is an excellent film
> Repo Men (2010) is even better
That's not a very widely shared assessment.
Repo Man (1984): 98% on RT, average rating 8/10. Ebert 3/4. IMDB 6.9/10. 75% Metacritic.
Repo Men (2010): 22% RT, average rating 4.2/10. Ebert 2/4. IMDB 6.3/10. 32% Metacritic.
1984 had a lot of science fiction movies: The Terminator, Dune, The Last Starfighter, The Adventurers of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, Starman, Repo Man, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock; Night of the Comet, The Philadelphia Experiment, 1984, The Ice Pirates, Supergirl, The Brother from Another Planet, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Dreamscape, Firestarter, Electric Dreams, C.H.U.D, The Return of Godzilla, The Toxic Avenger, and more.
I highly recommend the movie Repo Men (2010) to those who want to viscerally feel the implications of this kind of DRM.
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt1053424/
That's the plot outline for Repo Men ... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1053424/
I just watched "Repo Men" again, and while it's not a great movie, nor is it directly related, it came back to haunt me while waiting in line at the bank: I'm still really afraid of "not being", specifically not being alive. And I asked myself, not for the first time, what's the purpose? Am I really making the world a better place? Does it matter? Eventually I settled on my old fallback of "well, as long as I'm happy" (which, BTW, questions like these keep me from being happy). But this article hits close to home, as does your comment, and there's not a day that goes by that I wish I was getting paid to work on open source software full time. And then I think even that wouldn't be enough, maybe I'm wasting my potential, and I should have stuck it out and gone to grad school and maybe done something amazing. Maybe not Nash or Knuth amazing, or Norman Borlaug amazing, but something of lasting value and worth that made the world a better place in innumerable ways.
Volunteering in other ways can help; while the effects aren't as long lasting or deep (but subtle), the instant gratification of helping to save a life can be surprisingly uplifting :)