Repo Men (2010) Review

In my own intention to find inspirational sources for my project on designer babies, I found this film influential, which is about people buying organs, to replace failure ones at a high price tag for a better life. However if they ever stopped the payments agreed, they would send out bounty hunters to repossess them whether they were dead or alive. The main actor (Jude Law)’ uses the words “can’t pay for your car, the bank takes it back, can’t pay for your house, the bank takes it back, can’t pay for your liver... well, that’s where I come in” as he explains his job relating to everyday life dehumanizing reality . In this diverse industry (set in there future), this company called ‘the union’ tracks down these organs by a monitoring device, as people are forced to hide underground because they don’t have the money to pay for their usage.
As he pursues his job, his wife begins to rebel as it gets too far and kicks him out the house. With his mind on the family situation he does a job which knocks him unconscious making it the fourth time that this has happened. Due to this, he gets a brand new mechanical heart installed of which he has 90days to repay. This makes him feel what it is like when the shoe is on the other foot, regretting his actions and finding it hard to carry on with his job, though really in-need of the money to pay off his organ debt. Resulting to go undercover to steal another organ that wasn’t registered behind his partners back, he gets caught by his partner (Forest Whitaker); days later, he is hunted down by a debt collector, which makes him go on the run. Failing to get through customs at the airport with his new girl friend (Alice Braga) he has to fight off his former partner and a crew of repo men to get to a safe room. When they decide that they can’t run no more, they both take out each other’s organs owed, using a knife being clear of their debt suffering the pain through the love they share with each other.
After watching this film, i have decided to make sculptures of things like eyeballs, brains and teeth also making hair and skin samples to put on display with price tags as if in a jewellery shop.
This would state the fact that a perfect body and features don’t come cheap all throughout your life.
My reason for doing this on top of the mosaic is to show the consequential side of how much it’ll cost to create person with no defects.
As far as designer babies are concerned, if you are a parent with bad teeth for example, you wouldn’t really want your son/daughter to grow up with the same burden, worrying about how they look, which is where the sculpture etc. come into play.