‘Lungs and livers and bladders and hearts. You’ll always
save a bundle when you buy our Geneco parts. Spleens, intestines, and spines
and brains. All at warehouse prices but our quality’s the same. Geneco.’
So, Repo! The Genetic Opera is a fairly recent obsession for
me. But it is an obsession. So, I thought I’d try and look at why it works…and,
at the same time, doesn’t. Because, really, it was sort of a flop. It’s coming
together after the fact. A cult movie.
WHY IT DOESN’T WORK: It doesn’t appeal to everyone. At all.
The target audience is macabre. They have to be very into music—and I mean very
into music. And they need to like sci-fi. And be willing to really pay
attention to the movie. Because, if you don’t, you’ll miss stuff. I promise.
It’s an intricate movie.
And the humor. The humor is another thing that’s going to
turn away a lot of people. It’s grotesque, black humor. Using a corpse like a
ventriloquism dummy. Stabbing people over shitty coffee.
WHY IT DOES WORK: But, if you can accept that black humor,
you’ll have a great laugh. And it’s a great movie for fans of dystopian sci-fi.
The concept of mass organ failures, organ replacement, organ repossession…it’s
wonderful.
And the characters are classic opera, classic overstated
personalities. Caricatures. I mean, a movie where a rapist and a murderer are
the comic relief? You know it’s going to be a little out there. So, if you’re a
little (or a lot) out there, give Repo! a try. I did, and I don’t regret it.
Not in the slightest.
Voss
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